Word: taught
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...high school during the late 1970s, his peers taught him names for himself: words like "fag" pushed him further into the closet...
...skills." Rio Rancho tailors core subjects to students' interests: a humanities course in the business-and-technology academy examines the history of the oil industry; fine-arts-academy students look at the Nazi plundering of paintings. Consistent with the trend known as "integrated curriculum," history and literature are taught in the same humanities course, allowing a smooth transition from Colonial politics to The Scarlet Letter...
Though seventh-graders in Marina's single-sex program had the option of switching to coed classes, few did. At year's end the results were encouraging. "In general, their attention was more on their academic activities," says Lorraine Perry, 50, who taught science and math in both single-sex academies last year. As Perry hoped, the girls flourished away from male competition. The surprise was that the boys thrived too. "They were a little more open," says Perry, "to admitting that they didn't understand something than if there had been girls in class...
...tell the same old story. Goodwin reveals herself, not surprisingly, as a precocious child. From her ill, house-bound mother, she gained a love for books; from her oldest sister Charlotte, a sense of grace and style; and from Jeanne, the middle child, confidence and ambition. Her father taught her a love of baseball--especially of the Brooklyn Dodgers--and baseball became the theme music of her childhood...
Experience has taught Yon A. Lot '00, another anonymous slacker, that most people don't have to do half the work on their course syllabi to make the grade...