Word: vines
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Tracy Robinson was losing them. The lesson for her fourth-grade class at Cincinnati's Vine Elementary School on this Friday afternoon was fractions, and as she stood at the front of the room with her textbook, explaining why 1/3 is larger than 1/4, she saw blank stares. No hands were raised. She drew shapes on the blackboard, shading in parts of them, but that didn't work either. The kids were wiggling in their seats. "I was getting so nervous," Robinson recalls. "I was feeling like, 'O.K., now what...
Robinson is the first in her family with a college degree, as are many teachers. She says she knew she wanted to be a teacher when she was in kindergarten. Like every other CITE intern, she is strongly encouraged to keep a journal of her year at Vine Elementary--whose students have the highest rate of poverty among the city's schools--to reflect upon her worries, her triumphs and her progress...
Often the lead teachers use the journals in their mentoring. Early in the school year, Karon Jacob, another intern at Vine, wrote, "We try to get parent participation by sending home the weekly behavior charts of the students to be signed. However, no parents have sent their child's back. Also, homework given to the children is never brought back." In her response, mentor Cheryl Hilen wrote, "Offer bonus points, an incentive, or special privilege for kids who bring them back. Make a big deal about...
...York Republican Gerald Solomon, the current ban is too inflexible and should be replaced with one which allows members to accept gifts worth up to $50, the maximum amount now allowed in the Senate. TIME's James Carney says the panel's initiative will most likely die on the vine: "It probably won't go anywhere, because the House passed this thing with a lot of self congratulation, and to back off it now would open up it to a lot of ridicule. It's like voting for a pay raise: While it may be justified, it's like committing...
Recall the Flavr Savr, a tomato bioengineered to ripen on the vine and last months on the shelf. It might have been a huge moneymaker if only the thing had tasted like a tomato. Its maker, Calgene Inc., traded above $20 a share in 1992, but the stock subsequently rotted to $5, and Monsanto Co. has offered to buy the company for $7.25 a share...