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...like that. "It" can't be turned on and off like a light switch. "It" is more like a nuclear reactor--a long buildup to full power and a longer slide to shutdown. Anything goes wrong, and it's bad news...
...haven't seen any student confusion [with the switch]," says Margarita Cordova, a Kindergarten teacher in a Spanish classroom of Amigos. "They know which days are English and which are Spanish better than their parents...
...Kreshtool is fond of mixing up the members of this diverse group. People are asked to switch partners several times in the course of the lesson, and are given several minutes after each switch to get to know their new partner...
...Dartmouth goalie Mike Bracco was equally asleep at the switch at his own end--on three separate occasions, his misplays of Harvard clearing attempts almost wound up behind him for goals...
...need more incentives and support at the freshman and sophomore levels," said Ray Jayawardhena, former editor-in-chief of the Yale Scientific, Yale's quarterly science journal. "At Yale, almost one half of the people who indicate science and engineering as probably majors switch out of science within the first two years [of college]," Jayawardhena said...