Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WHAT THEY WANTED] --LENDERS say consumers have abused the system, using bankruptcy as a debt-avoidance tactic. The stigma is gone...
...UPSHOT] The law was signed in July after close call on whether the White House would veto it. Congressional Democrats initially opposed the bill, but critics say the lure of high-tech donations made many of them supporters...
...another in the "dress-up corner" or building wood-block skyscrapers. They spend more time sitting still, listening to the teacher and drilling on the basics. The immediate results of early reading and writing initiatives may please some parents and school administrators, but teachers and childhood-development experts say they are worried about the children...
...talked about the letter f and which words begin with f. The students then made a graph showing how many loops of each color they had. Then they made a necklace of the loops and, finally, ate them. When schools can nurture such comprehensive learning in small groups, experts say the results can be excellent (even when the kids eat the lesson). But for schools with fewer resources, teachers have to do much more instructing from the front of the class and employ methods they describe as "drill and kill"--because they often kill the kids' enthusiasm...
Though almost half the kindergartens in the country still operate on a half-day schedule, the trend is toward a full day. Says James Squires, an early-education consultant for the Vermont department of education: "We need to give these kids more time in the classroom, but we should still try to preserve childhood for them as well." Child-development experts and educators say reading and math instruction can be fine for kindergartners, as long as they're also allowed to learn through play and creative activities. And like the rest of us, they also benefit from a snack...