Word: springfield
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Apprenticeship has produced promising results in various experimental programs. Techniques devised by Ann Brown and Annemarie Palincsar, while doing education research at the University of Illinois, raised reading-comprehension , scores in a Springfield seventh-grade class from 20% to 80% in 20 days. The method was to make the children approach a text the way a teacher does: by formulating questions, summarizing, predicting what will come next and isolating problems...
...Springfield College men's volleyball team avenged a thrashing Harvard handed them February at the Malkin Athletic Center by handing the Crimson a stinging straight-set defeat in Springfield Wednesday night...
Whereas the Crimson played solidly in every respect and were exceptional hitting and blocking against Springfield last month, its game fell a notch Wednesday as inconsistent outside and middle play plagued the team all night...
...most egregious example of the intransigent and inflexible refereeing came in the second set. With the score tied, 6-6, and Harvard serving, Springfield's back row setter hit the ball over the net as he stood inches from the net. Harvard promptly killed the weak hit but was called for brushing the net. The referee apparently failed to realize that a backrow player hit the ball from inside the 10-foot line...
Taking advantage of a poor Maroon defense, Harvard extended its lead to 14-5 but had difficulty putting the game away. As Springfield fought back to 14-8, Gurdal must have had haunting visions of the MIT match, when the Crimson was a point away from winning several games but couldn't stop the Engineers. The ball changed hands six times before the Crimson earned its first victory...