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...Lest she get sidetracked, a kitchen timer cues her to move on after one minute. Broadus, a phys.-ed. teacher for 29 years, had no training in reading instruction prior to Success for All. "I had no background," she laughs. "And with this program, I had no choice." The rigor apparently pays off at test time. In a three-year University of Memphis study of local Success for All schools, scores surged past state averages. At Anthony Bowen School, administrators say the scores of more than 50% of the children have risen...
...Three is good. This was proved in a secret experiment conducted by the Democratic National Committee--and financed with soft money, since it was considered a party-building activity. As more people entered the room, the Vice President stiffened at a steady pace that one researcher compared to rigor mortis. For the record, there were 16 people present when Gore "began exhibiting overt robotic characteristics...
...opposed modes of creation, we have begun to think about them as mutually informative. The '90s, to a great degree, were about developing different models to help us attend to difference. At the same time, retreating behind the defense of pluralism has been blamed for a loss of critical rigor. Visual Memoirs is an example of an installation that walks, and occasionally wobbles on, the line between visual potpourri and meaningful dialogue, in which the viewer has to think about what unites the works besides how diverse they...
...cites examples of Harvard students who have had trouble with the academic rigor of Yale's graduate program...
...academic rigor of intellectual history has attracted students not concentrating in history...