Word: virginia
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Unfortunately things did not go as planned in Virginia, as the Crimson (0-2) dropped both matches, losing to No. 10 ranked William and Mary (7-0) on Sunday, 7-2, and again yesterday to No. 20 Virginia Common wealth...
Harvard will now head to New Jersey to play in the Princeton Invitational next Saturday and Sunday. With the tougher matches against William and Mary and Virginia Commonwealth under its belt, the Crimson will look to get in the win column against some Ancient Eight foes...
...phone rings. You are at home, but getting ready to head out to your weekly tennis game in the Virginia suburbs. You are thinking perhaps about your spin serve, a wicked slice that moves left to right so fast that you have left some of Washington's biggest names tripping over their feet and cursing. Sure, you can leave the stock market wheezing with one word about higher interest rates, but...if only they could see what you can do to anyone foolish enough to line up inside against that serve! You are 72 years old, and your tennis game...
...many states, the tests have sparked worry about the number of students who aren't measuring up. Virginia's board of education disclosed last month that nearly 98% of the state's schools failed to meet suggested accreditation minimums on the new Standards of Learning test, though many educators claim the test was unfair because it was not geared specifically to school curriculums. In Massachusetts, which introduced its exam last spring, more than 80% of fourth-graders got a failing score or a "needs improvement" in English; half of all 10th-graders failed the math portion of the test. Governor...
...been raised too high? Some teachers and parents complain that the tests are too exhaustive--and exhausting--for young students. The Massachusetts test clocked in at 16 hours, spread over several weeks. Tina Yalen, an eighth-grade civics teacher, gave her opinion of the Virginia test: "Some of it looked like Trivial Pursuit to me." More worrisome is how a 10-year-old will react if his or her result is branded with a scarlet F. Says Harvard's Reville: "An overload of negative feedback runs the risk that students are going to shut down and not make an effort...