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...income students, he posited, are more likely to be exposed to such enriching experiences as private lessons, computers, newspapers, magazines, libraries, museums, having their parents read to them, and the like. The study indicated that poorer students, on the other hand, largely fail to make progress and sometimes even regress over the summer. Studies also show that more time in school can proffer marked gains in student performance. Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution, for example, examined the impact of increased time spent learning math on math scores, finding a significant increase when as little as 10 minutes were added...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: More is More | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

...given mood, build the suspense, or introduce a new character. For instance, “A Bower Scene” consists of a single guitar riff that seems to be more like a long introduction to the next song to come. With its thumping power chords that build and regress, the track is designed only to give the story a treacherous feel and create tension as the narrative begins. When it eventually erupts into a bombastic heavy metal motif of the next cut or is repeated later on in the CD, the song’s necessity to the album...

Author: By Matt E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Decemberists | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...habit of self-absorption, unable even to live with someone else because it interferes with our own space." She still has trouble with commitment, but feels a push toward it because she wants children and does not care to have to raise them by herself. "I can still regress, but I don't want to," she says. "The only time I get really nostalgic is when I get stoned and listen to Pink Floyd and think about when everyone was everyone else's lover. But it just doesn't work." With her first husband, she experimented with open marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution Is Over | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

...more specific and backed by more information for practitioners. Two screenings are needed - one at 18 months and one at 24 months, explains Dr. Scott Meyers, who authored one of the reports, because about a quarter of children with ASD appear to develop normally at first and then regress - losing early language and social behavior - sometime between 15 and 24 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding and Fighting Autism Early | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

...event and the information we have to explain those events. So the sort of deeper reason why I wrote the book is because I believe that when we understand those tactics we become more shock resistant. That the mere act of sort of unpacking and looking at how we regress in moments of trauma is the best form of resistance against that very regression when the next shock hits. So even though much of the material in the book is despairing, my hope is that the overall effect of it is empowering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Naomi Klein on 'Disaster Capitalism' | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

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