Word: someness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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--BUT The FCC's efforts to stay out of Internet regulation have led to some community battles that have gone AOL's way. That means at least some parties want Congress to act to avoid piecemeal, local rulemaking
It is 11:30 a.m. on Monday, and Mrs. Wampler is squeezing in one more math lesson before her morning kindergarten class leaves for the day: "If you have three bunnies and three apples, and there is an apple to go with each bunny, then they are...equal." It's...
Wampler and her students illustrate the latest math concept in elementary education: kindergarten = first grade. Kindergarten--so fondly remembered by baby boomers for show-and-tell and building blocks--has changed. Standardized curriculum and testing in primary schools are causing what educators call "push-down" academics. The need to perform...
Today more parents (especially affluent ones) are delaying the start of school to give their children an extra year of pre-school. This trend--known as "redshirting," after the practice of holding back freshman college athletes--is widening the developmental and age gaps among the students. A "typical" kindergarten class...
Some schools cope by employing volunteers to help in the classroom. At Forest Trail Elementary in Austin, Texas, Marie Grace, a stay-at-home mom, serves one day a week on "table time." During a recent visit, she sat at a table with five children and passed out Froot Loops...