Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schools, said last month." is to learn what we can do "Cambridge school principals and officials have noted that students throughout the system tend to meet the city's minimum standards in math, but fall far below in reading and writing. With this nationally noticed deficiency in students verbal abilities comes a more unusual figure, and one Cambridge may be able to do some thing about System wide fewer sixth graders met the competencies than either third or eights graders. And in all schools and all grades, percentages of students meeting the minimum were lower in spring 1982 than...
Their father, who has "only raised a few games home and away in the last four years," says he doesn't really notice the verbal abuse from the crowd but does "not like at all the physical pounding that Scott takes in front,"--though he adds. "There...
...scenes take place just before a character's emotional outburst or cut in just after; few actually reveal what's going on inside the character's head. Nelligan consistently underplays her anger and terror, adeptly portraying a woman who bottles everything up. But when she cracks, in a brutal verbal battle with her husband (David Dukes) in a restaurant. Jaffe seems to avert the camera, weakening the scene's impact...
...extensive reform of Harvard's undergraduate program in a generation. After the Core won Faculty approval on May 2, 1978, by a vote of 182-65, Class Day Speaker Rodney Dangerfield declared, "Believe me, the Core Curriculum is nothing compared to my mother-in-law." But most of the verbal theatrics came from Faculty members, who went through three long sessions and numerous proposed amendments before agreeing on the Core as we know it today...
...statistics are startling. They seem to indicate a correlation between socio-economic status and SAT scores, which would account for the huge racial discrepancies that exist. According to the College Board, the mean score for whites taking the SAT in 1981 was 442 Verbal, 483 Math. Comparable figures for Blacks were 332 and 362. One Black college president estimated last week that 90 percent of the students in predominantly Black schools would fail to meet the NCAA requirement...