Word: pencils
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...Spike and Mike's Animation Festival is back at Coolidge Theater, and the features above are some of its more wholesome. Boasting Claymation, computer graphics, flipbook-like pencil drawings and a kind of "Lego-mation," S&M's festival certainly covers all grounds of animation. Each short film, ranging from one minute to nine-and-a-half minutes, features stories either too short to be made into its own movie or program or too offensive or to be in any form other than animation...
...Seuss is worth 1/2 point, Tolstoy 130 points, and students can redeem points for everything from a pencil (10 points) to a trip to an Atlanta Braves game (150 points). And if you think the tests are giveaways, guess who flunked The Cat in the Hat test last week, flubbing 3 out of 5. Like you would have remembered if it was a A) windy, B) sunny, C) snowy...
...wants to sharpen a pencil often the whole row has to get up," she says. "The rows are so close together, when they back up they smash fingers...
...just wannabe residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who are in this tussle. As the stakes of standardized tests have risen dramatically over the past few years, tying student promotion and teacher bonuses to the results of one stressful afternoon darkening ovals with a no. 2 pencil, some parents have begun a backlash. Many are keeping their kids home on test days and staging noisy, headline-grabbing rallies in protest. In response, some states have backpedaled from the most stringent testing policies, often decreasing the weight placed on exams or rolling back the year in which they take full effect...
Everybody who attends a 9 a.m. class, or teaches one, is familiar with the tell-tale clatter as one of the participants loses the battle to stay awake and keep notepad and pencil from falling off the desk. Much the same situation pertains in 10 a.m. classes too. For the exhausted victim, catching up afterwards by reviewing material on the course website or borrowing someone else's notes means a double investment of time. Starting the lecture schedule later in the morning would not solve anything; it would just prolong the day at the other end, unless Harvard drastically reduced...