Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...send kids home with mind-numbing math worksheets that are not even reviewed the next day. Too many are enamored of those unwieldy "projects" that seem to exasperate kids more than they instruct them and that lead to excessive parent involvement. For young students, the optimal arrangement would mix skill-building drills with creative tasks closely tied to what's being taught in the classroom--such as interviewing grandparents as a social-studies lesson or using soccer standings to teach rudimentary statistics...
...know what a juggernaut is, but I know one thing, they've got a very good football team," said Arizona coach Vince Tobin, whose team was in the playoffs for the first time in 16 years. "They're well-coached, they've got some great skill people and they play hard...
...opportunity presented to me [at MIT] was more compelling to me than the one at Radcliffe," she said. "In order to retain the kind of people that will move this institution forward, they need to be given authority as well as responsibility--and be respected for their professional skill and knowledge...
...story sticks because it is the story of every year--courage, skill, hubris and the best-laid plans brought low by nature, which does not care. The amazing thing is that we care; that we continue to be concerned with those in peril on the sea; that we continue to be interested in one another as a story and keep at the story of ourselves until, maybe, one day we'll get it right. The story of the year? It might have been the moment we looked up with that sweet old eagerness and hope and told each other...
...JEFF GORDON Just 27, Gordon has won three of the last four NASCAR championships. His 13 wins this year tie Richard Petty's 1975 record. His domination of the sport (and his stilted, good-boy image) has already lost him fans. But his guts, skill and pit crew will be breaking records for the next few decades, so get used...