Word: reads
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This view is opposed by those who feel that the liberalized curriculum of the 60s and 70s has adversly affected higher education. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, for example, has suggested that all college students be required to read the "great books" of Western civilization. This "back-to-basics" version of assessment has found strong support among several state legislatures which have mandated basic-skills tests and specific curricular reforms in public universities. While Harvard is not subject to state mandated reforms, it is closely studying assessment projects at schools that...
...Dacca, the capital of Bangladesh, Ahmad grew increasingly concerned about the many illiterate children who lived in the city's slums and worked as domestics for wealthy families. At the age of 14, he started a school to teach these children to read, converting several vacant car garages into classrooms, hiring six university students as teachers and enrolling 200 students...
...limits. She has agreed to tell Iranscam Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh about her NSC deeds in return for immunity from prosecution. When the deal became known last week, Hall suddenly found herself thrust into the media glare. Photographers followed her car, a red Fiero with license plates that read FAWN. David Letterman joked about her, the New York Post dubbed her "Iranscam Beauty," and pictures from her modeling days flashed across the network news shows. Said Hall: "One of my friends told me Andy Warhol said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. I kind of feel like that right...
...bulbs, one in the ceiling and a "night- light" near the door. Both were dim, but the one near the door was kept burning round the clock. "The light didn't bother our sleeping," Begun said. "Our struggle was always for a brighter bulb so we could see to read...
After supper Begun was able to read by the dim light, but he was allowed no more than five books at a time. "This was difficult for me because I read books in English and Hebrew, and I needed dictionaries. I also needed mathematics textbooks, but they refused. They said I was not a student...