Word: passes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Texas education agency but increased accountability by beefing up and enforcing state standards. Most important, he started tracking results by race and ethnicity, rewarding schools that boost performance--especially minority performance. He also took on state teachers' colleges, telling them that 70% of graduates in each minority group must pass the state teacher-certification exam or the schools would risk losing accreditation; 35 of the state's 86 colleges are now on probation. Says Jeanne Allen, president of the Center for Education Reform, "Few Governors have been willing to test as much as he has. Texas is well...
...rumpled corduroy jacket with his nose pressed eagerly against the double-glazed windows of fame. A failed novelist, he writes celebrity profiles for magazines and subsists emotionally on such crusts--a bit of gossip, a moment of false intimacy--as the famous discard as they pass...
...crowd gathered around a Carpenter Center table could almost pass for a cat-burglar convention--the students, lecturer and TF are uniformly clad in black. Viewed together, the group embodies a certain stereotype of "artsiness." The uninitiated reporter finds the attire fitting preconceptions about a VES class, and idly wonders: Where are the cigarettes and berets...
...season ended prematurely," Kim L. Megdanis '00 laments. A three-season runner, Megdanis is currently recuperating from a serious muscle strain, only a year after undergoing surgery. She says her decision to pass on the remainder of the cross-country season was difficult, although it was made in consultation with her coach and trainer...
...When people pass them, then they'll have bad luck. We hope...