Word: poring
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Still, those on the front lines--America's teachers--do not need to pore over test scores to know there is a terrifying and potentially enduring problem. ``You see students for whom the system has failed, and that's what enrages me,'' says Susan McCray, a teacher at Boston's urban Fenway Middle College High School, who struggles daily to convince her students that learning can be thrilling for its own sake--as well as a ticket to a better life. ``It has a real effect on real lives...
After all, you have to wonder about people who would pore over The Star Trek Encyclopedia, with 5,000 entries on every character, planet, gadget or concept ever mentioned in the series, from gagh ("serpent worms, a Klingon culinary delicacy") to Pollux V ("planet in the Beta Geminorum system that registered with no intelligent life-forms when the Enterprise investigated that area of space on Stardate 3468"). Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek's late creator and guiding spirit, once got a letter from a group of scientists who complained about a scene in which Captain Picard visited France and looked...
...sight of all these orts and fragments in Twombly's pictures seems to have convinced his more ardent admirers that he's a classicist, saturated in the myths and literature of the ancient Mediterranean, exuding them from every pictorial pore. All he has to do is scrawl a wobbly triumph of galatea or et in arcadia ego on a canvas, and suddenly he's up there with Roberto Calasso, if not Edward Gibbon. When an audience that has lost all touch with the classical background once considered indispensable in education sees virgil written in a picture, it accepts...
Instead of assuming that everyone is going to pore over the term bill to find the council refund box, the council should be required to enclose a cover letter with every term bill explaining their activities and requesting financial support. Students should be presented with the option of checking either a "yes" or "no" box. The council should receive the money only if the student checks the "yes" box. This measure would remove the underhandedness of the current process...
There will be no fireworks because senators--their political allegiances notwithstanding--tend to coddle each other, to pat each other on the back. You needn't be a closet Kantian to understand their moral calculus: unearth unseemly moments in his past and he'll have his staff pore over your third-grade evaluations until your own paper-trail of moral excesses emerges...