Word: presented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dehumanizing teachers and demoralizing students, standardized testing unintentionally contributes to the state of decadence present in American education. Ridiculous as it sounds today, Harvard University originally championed the SAT (the first major standardized test) as a means to achieving a classless society. However, the system implemented has achieved other, unintended purposes. Instead of the mechanism leading society towards utopia, testing has become an absurd beast ravaging American academia...
...study, "The Return to Attending a More Selective College: 1960 to the Present," Hoxby showed that attending a top-tier school does pay off in the long run. But Hoxby's definition of a top-tier school was more inclusive than that of Krueger and Dale--her top tier included their system's top three tiers...
...military front, but it is even worse among the Iraqi insurgents, who have to be coached, caressed and cajoled by the State Department. Last weekend 300 delegates from various Iraqi opposition groups gathered in New York City, where U.S. officials hoped they would finally lay aside their feuds and present a unified front. That didn't happen. The major group representing Iraq's southern Shi'ites, the Iran-backed Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, didn't even show...
...Melody at Night, with You is the first album Jarrett has made since falling ill. "I started taping it in December of 1997, as a Christmas present for my wife," he recalls. "I'd just had my Hamburg Steinway overhauled and wanted to try it out, and I have my studio right next to the house, so if I woke up and had a half-decent day, I would turn on the tape recorder and play for a few minutes. I was too fatigued to do more. Then something started to click with the mike placement, the new action...
...Also present was Manuel Rodriguez-Orellana, professor at Inter-American Law School in Puerto Rico...