Word: yardsticks
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...test scores, Baltimore students attending a control group of non-EAI schools have shown a steady improvement in math and reading scores since 1992, while EAI school scores lagged behind not only the control group but the city as a whole. EAI officials, using a different yardstick, dispute these figures and note that it will take some time for scores to show improvement...
...cultural yardstick for measuring leadership is definitely a white male one," Roberts said...
...about how his research may come to be applied." While many researchers in this relatively new field are glad to see emotional issues finally taken seriously, they fear that a notion as handy as EQ invites misuse. Goleman admits the danger of suggesting that you can assign a numerical yardstick to a person's character as well as his intellect; Goleman never even uses the phrase EQ in his book. But he (begrudgingly) approved an "unscientific" EQ test in USA Today with choices like "I am aware of even subtle feelings as I have them," and "I can sense...
...particular yardstick of this phenomenon is remembrance and commemoration of the Holocaust. Why dwell on suffering, including in the seder? The answer is simple--it reminds us of what can happen, and alerts us to the plight of others in similar situations. But we many never know completely how Jews would act in the absence of suffering--society has never allowed us to try this experiment...
...find it ridiculous that Mr. Gell would choose the quote by a Dr. Albright that equates "primitive" to "...the only English they spoke was..." I would expect a member of an institution like Harvard to be between informed than one who uses English speech as the yardstick for civilization. It is not. Kenya has a wealth of indigenous languages which make up the rich cultural background that its citizens are very proud of. Just in case Mr. Gell's history has grown rust, English was not the language in use at the beginning of civilization...