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Moreover, MCAS narrowly defines intelligence, knowledge, and understanding. The MCAS does not respect the fact that a six-year-old is bilingual. The MCAS does not care if a student understands multiplication; it only cares that a student knows the multiplication tables. Public school students know this vital distinction better than proponents of MCAS. From the perspective of a 16-year-old, what is the better use of time: working to earn a wage or staying in a school that is as intellectually engaging as basic training, only to pass a test and end up with a slightly better job?...

Author: By Eleanor R. Duckworth and David U. Fox, S | Title: MCAS Perpetuates Inequality | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...more adrenaline-fueled encounters with the mountains, try Sunrise Paragliding's excursions out of Pokhara. The six-year-old British-Nepali partnership (see nepal-paragliding.com) offers a range of aerial experiences. Trek or jeep to a mountaintop and then paraglide down with an instructor. The three-day paratrek has you landing in a different village each night. In one of its most popular activities, parahawking, you follow hawks trained to find elusive mountain updrafts for rides that can last for several hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detours | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

Harvard's Core Curriculum is bursting its seams, serving 6000 more students with 40 percent fewer courses than its six-year-old plan calls for, professors and administrators said this week...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Wanted: Professors For Core | 2/8/2003 | See Source »

...dream that there will be no more bad guys,” shared a six-year-old attendee...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Share Dreams at King Memorial Service | 1/22/2003 | See Source »

...Deepali was the first victim, killed on July 26. Eight more deaths followed: a nine-year-old, a five-year-old and a 35-year-old woman in August, a six-year-old, a 13-year-old and a 22-year-old in September and a seven-year-old and a five-year-old in November. Four others survived maulings. The number and frequency of the attacks left experts at a loss. While India is used to the occasional man-killer, until now such incidents were largely explained by human trespass on an animal's hunting ground or ferociously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silent Scream | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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