Word: regular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This election proves that beyond a shadow of adoubt, the Eighth Congressional District stillbelongs to the regular working people of America,"he said...
...practice of sticking special-ed kids in separate classes for the duration of the school day has given way to the policy of "mainstreaming," or "inclusion": nearly half of all special-needs students--and many more than that in suburban districts--spend most of the day in regular classes with nondisabled students. Though schools often assign a teacher's aide to oversee learning-disabled pupils, teachers in regular classrooms now have to handle those students--many of whom have serious behavior problems as well--while keeping everyone else on track...
...average student loses out." In Buffalo, N.Y., seventh-grade teacher Rebecca Heim confronts similar frustrations. Eight of her 24 students last year had special needs. "They end up holding back the class because of the constant disruption to the classroom," Heim says. "That's a disservice to the regular-ed students...
...learning-disabled students. That frustrates principals like Mary Gordon of Windsor Elementary School in Des Moines. There, learning-disabled first-graders who have trouble with reading get pulled out for periods of the day to attend a small-group session with a tutor; meanwhile, the sizes of the two regular classes swell as high as 28 or 29. "Why not make it legal to use the special-education funds to help pay for a third class," she sensibly asks, "and have three classes...
...avoid reading any of the Starr report, as his deputy chief of staff John Podesta claims? It's a tidbit that betrays the siege mentality at the White House, where the leader of the free world is increasingly becoming the loneliest man in it. Clinton skipped even his regular church service Sunday (where his transgressions were the subject of the day's sermon), while his attorney David Kendall hit the talk shows to defend his client's indefensible semantic contortion -- that he may have lied under oath about sex, but he didn't commit perjury...