Word: reaching
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When your nine minutes are up and it's time to go, Eskelsen suggests that you ask the teacher how she can best be reached--by phone, handwritten note or e-mail. Many schools are setting up websites with e-mail and voice mail to facilitate communication between parents and teachers. Parents should use them not only to flag problems but also to praise a particularly inspiring lesson or assignment. Parents should make sure the teacher knows how she can reach them and should make her feel welcome...
...with a jazz-pop sound, and people kind of liked them then. Now, numerous covers, one big Todd Terry remix club hit ("Missing"), one milestone album (Walking Wounded), several style shifts and too many years later, they hit out with a diffused house album that can't reach the mark. Temperamental is a post-trolling album; it whiffs like vapor. It is typically morose and introspective; you could mistake at first that the disconnection between Thorn's dreary vocals and Watt's creative instrumental mischief is intentional to achieve a wasteland acoustic for Watt's sensitive lyrics...
...perform. But providing everyone in the nation with exactly the same education would be a disservice both to those who would benefit from more rigorous academic training and to those who would be best served by vocational training or the opportunity to explore more creative educational alternatives. Different people reach their full potential in different environments. Not everyone would be happy taking courses at Harvard. The environments that people choose for themselves, ideally, should have equal social standing. To believe that they will any time soon is probably naive, but by trying to fit everyone into the same mold...
...emphasis on the "right" colleges and less hysteria about and dependency on standardized testing. He wants a society in which achievement need not be academic or youthful to be rewarded. In short, he wants students who are learning rather than earning grades. I absolutely agree. But in trying to reach these goals, he advocates a system at once even more divisive based on educational background and even less adept at providing young Americans with the opportunity to work hard and reach their potential later in life. In any case, The Big Test is an interesting contribution to a discussion about...
Jack W. Delaney '64, of the law firm Hale & Dorr, said the University's move to reach out to the community was "long overdue and very welcome...