Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's no competing against summer jobs in computers and technology, which are plentiful in today's surging economy...
...market time-shares. But 11 years ago, Bridges, 59, an electrician, and his wife, 57, a tutor, shelled out $8,000 for one week each year in a fully equipped two-bedroom "villa" near Disney World. The Bridgeses soon learned that they had acquired a valuable currency in today's booming vacation market. Before long they were trading their place for a week's skiing at Lake Tahoe or a visit to New Orleans. "I guess I always thought there was a scheme," says Edith Bridges. "But it's working...
...Today more parents (especially affluent ones) are delaying the start of school to give their children an extra year of pre-school. This trend--known as "redshirting," after the practice of holding back freshman college athletes--is widening the developmental and age gaps among the students. A "typical" kindergarten class contains kids ages 4 to 6 whose level of development varies widely. Some barely know their letters, while others are fairly fluent readers. Sue Bredekamp, editor of a widely used guide for teachers of young children, says, "What teachers tell us is that expectations for kindergartners have become more standardized...
Jean Ziegenfuss Clement, who teaches phonics to kindergartners at Ray Elementary School in Chicago, says, "At the end of the day, I have to ask myself, Did these kids laugh? Did they play today? But the teachers, the schools and the principals are graded on our students' test scores...
...foreign policy issues. Big mistake. This treaty mattered a lot more than some sordid affair for which the Republican right failed to exact retribution. No doubt Europe and Asia will pay the price of American schoolyard politics in the near future through nuclear testing and proliferation. Watch out, Congress. Today Pakistan and India. Tomorrow a country that is right next door? PETER MCNAMARA London...