Word: pined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goes by the name of the Pine Grove Elementary School, a stark clapboard affair the size of a mobile home, some 40 miles of gravel road from Jordan, a hiccup of a town on the plains of eastern Montana. Pine Grove is one of 640 one-room public schoolhouses left in the U.S., a good example of a vanishing breed that occupies a hallowed place in American mythology. And the formula still works. Montana alone has more than 100 one-room schools in operation, and the state ranks third nationally in achievement tests...
...appearances are deceiving. The country school is no educational idyll, but the centerpiece of a complicated social arrangement and a daunting challenge for a lone teacher, who may have to juggle pupils in as many as nine grades with creativity and coherence. At Pine Grove, which has a total of nine students in eight grades, first-grader Becky Stanton meanders through a paragraph about American Indians while sixth-grader Nicole Phipps, sitting inches away, considers the difference between a kilometer and a hectometer. Their teacher, Elaine Savage, moves smoothly from one girl to the other. "They're growing corn...
...isolation of the one-room school leaves many students starved for greater contact with peers and more extracurricular activities. "I was bored out there," says Wendy Stanton, 15, who attended Pine Grove and now boards in Jordan as a high school freshman. "You miss your friends...
...curriculum at Pine Grove is as spare as the decor. There are no foreign- language classes or organized sports, virtually no music or art. Current events receive minimal classroom attention. Savage is the first to concede that she has not yet figured out how to operate the Apple computer that Ronnie Stanton, Wendy's father, donated to the school a few years back. But no . matter. "We want the basics, and it's working," says Stanton. "Our kids come out of the country school into the town high school way advanced. It's the one-on-one attention." This...
...high end of men's fashion prospers and the middle ground looks for new style and stability, the only fashion constant is flux. Bilzerian talks about suits in shades of aubergine and pine green; even Hart Schaffner & Marx's Hoffman waxes evangelical about pleated pants as "a major fashion direction." To hear him tell it, it's only a matter of time until the Hartmarx man looks like a second cousin to the Duke of Windsor: "British is hot right now. You're going to see more 11-in. side vents, ticket pockets . . ." Could it be the beginning of another...