Word: taught
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ready! students say their teachers' attitudes made the learning experience fun. Each teacher scored at least 700 on the math or verbal section he or she taught in 45 minute sessions at Get Ready...
None of the new teachers had ever taught SAT prep before joining the program, and all retained second jobs in addition to staffing Get Ready! The curriculum was an amalgamation of published preparation materials, the strategies they learned in their own prep courses and personal insights...
...There was no course dedicated entirely toDante--it was a gap that needed filling," saidPertile, who had taught Dante's works for manyyears before joining Harvard...
...turmoil in Russia--a vast country that still bristles with 7,000 strategic nuclear warheads but whose economy scarcely rivals that of the Netherlands and accounts for less than 1% of U.S. exports. Investors treated Monday's market action as another of those "dips" in which they had been taught to buy stocks on the cheap. Heck, it wasn't even as big as the one-day dip last Oct. 27, and the market had shrugged that one off within six weeks before powering to new highs and greater glory...
...spring, after giving her class a plant diagram to color, Clapp watched as a group of boys got up to hang out at the pencil sharpener, and other students wandered the room for supplies; for a few moments, all order broke down. "It's overwhelming," says Clapp, who has taught for 39 years. "Dealing with this many kids and this many different needs wears you out. And by a long shot, the average student loses out." In Buffalo, N.Y., seventh-grade teacher Rebecca Heim confronts similar frustrations. Eight of her 24 students last year had special needs. "They...