Word: english
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Tenth graders' scores were down sharply. Two-thirds of the city's sophomores failed the English test and three-quarters failed the math exam. Starting this year, sophomores will have to pass both standardized tests--which are part of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System--in order to graduate...
...year before, 40 percent of sophomores failed the English test and 61 percent failed the math portion...
...hours a day, 365 days a year--a claim that Indian power companies and telephone exchanges can barely make. There are challenges to the job. Speed is a must; the company promises a 24-hour turnaround. So, too, is accuracy, and that poses challenges for Indians dealing with American English, which is why those U.S. TV programs are part of the training program. One worker couldn't understand a case history that involved a patient who ate a tortilla--so the company imported restaurant menus from the U.S. for study...
...people sit at terminals in a huge, air-conditioned hall, working for World Network Services, a unit of British Airways. They perform a variety of long-distance functions--tracking cargo, processing reservations, collating sales--for BA and other carriers. Qualifications for the jobs aren't high. Anyone who knows English and can use a keyboard can apply. WNS general manager Roy Marshall says the company looked at several countries before settling on India. The main reason: so many people speak English that expansion would never be a problem...
...consulting firm McKinsey & Co. estimates that the number of jobs in India's software and IT-services sector will jump from 280,000 last year to 2.2 million by 2008. "For people who are educated, speak English and have some basic skills," says Salil Parikh, CEO of Ernst & Young's Indian consulting operation, "it will be a great life...