Word: stigler
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Many of this year's skaters have performed for EWC before. 1999 U.S. Silver Medalist Naomi Nari Nam, a rising American star, has skated for EWC for two years, and 1998 U.S. Junior Pairs Champions Tiffany and Johnnie Stigler have performed twice before...
Parents could benefit from a little perspective too. American students on the whole still work less, play more and perform worse than many of their counterparts around the world. As Harold Stevenson and James Stigler point out in their book The Learning Gap, Japanese and Chinese elementary school students spend significantly more time on homework than do children in the U.S. A first-grader in Taipei does seven times as much homework as a first-grader in Minneapolis--and scores higher on tests of knowledge and skills...