Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tapped Armstrong three months after disconnecting AT&T president John Walter as the designated successor to the embattled Robert Allen, 62, who is stepping down as chairman and CEO. Directors said Walter, who was plucked from printer R.R. Donnelley & Sons last year, lacked the "intellectual leadership" to head the seventh largest U.S. company...
...change that means the most to critics of education is that Stanford's test scores are on the rise--particularly in mathematics, where the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders were, respectively, in the state's 77th, 74th and 66th percentile rank. Another measure of the school's success is its desirability: four years ago, the school accepted every student who applied; this year 200 students had to be turned away...
...teachers share a common passion, one Stanford staff member fairly pants at the opportunity to help students. She is Apache Rose, a four-year-old German shorthaired pointer and a licensed therapy dog belonging to physical-education teacher Monica Havelka. Apache was brought to school for the seventh-grade programs in health, science and phys ed, but she has become so popular that she now has kids of diverse backgrounds talking about her. She even has her own program to train older kids to handle therapy dogs--Apache Rose and Friends, or simply and cutely...
...idea had been to create a secondary school in New York City's East Harlem in which less was more. Smaller and fewer classes meant increased individual attention and a deeper understanding of subjects. She built the school a grade at a time, starting with the seventh in '85, until the school had a Division I for seventh- and eighth-graders, a Division II for ninth- and 10th-graders and a Senior Institute for 11th- and 12th-graders--546 students in all this year, with 41 full-time staff members...
...separate schools or even separate buildings. In fact, only about 105 of Marina's 810 students are separated so far; the rest attend typical coed classes. Michaelson started the single-sex experiment by setting aside two rooms within the hulking blue-and-white Art Deco edifice--one for 30 seventh-grade boys and one for 30 seventh-grade girls. While boys and girls in these single-sex "academies" spent most of the day apart, they mixed during one or two elective periods and socialized during lunch. "This way the kids get the best of both," says Michaelson...