Word: staying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most retained students never catch up to classmates who went ahead and struggle just to stay afloat among their new, younger set of peers. Karl Alexander, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, studied 800 Baltimore students and found that repeating a year benefited some at-risk students. Yet those retainees "were still just hanging on or barely passing" after they finally advanced. Even the extra assistance Chicago provides its retained students may not be enough. In the early 1980s, after a similar clampdown on social promotion, New York City hired 1,100 new teachers and put all retained kids...
...like his ape friends, he is advised by Kala to "just come up with your own sound." He does, and he likes it. The Tarzan yell is a shout of young maturity, of his interspecies uniqueness. But later, when he falls in love with Jane yet feels obliged to stay with his ape family to protect them, the yell carries a wrenching pathos. It is the primal scream of someone who doesn't know if he's man or monkey...
...also where someone takes physical care of him, perhaps around the clock. The choices then will be straightforward: he can enter a nursing home; he can move in with my family or my brother's and hire nursing and household care (since we work full-time); or he can stay in his house and do the same...
...Numerous players were either sick or injured during the preseason, and the team never fully healed. From walking pneumonia to broken fingers to a season-long bout with whooping cough, Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith's team couldn't stay healthy, and that proved to be Harvard's downfall...
...Harvard managed to stay alive in the race for the Ivy title by winning its next two, but another three-game losing streak ended the Crimson's hopes for a fourth straight championship. Still, a heavy dose of drama was left for year...