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...schools' performances. At the same time, the companies have been plagued by a lack of qualified staff. These factors have contributed to a concerning number of errors in the industry, as a series in The New York Times recently documented. Last May, NCS Pearson testing gave 47,000 Minnesotan students lower scores than they deserved. CTB/McGraw-Hill, a rival company, has not fared any better; last September, almost a quarter of New York City students forced to take summer school after receiving low scores on their exams learned that the tests had been mis-graded. Increasing demand for testing has also...
...democracy was evident everywhere. Muslim women in elegant gray chadors sat whispering in the same waiting room with stolid farmers and their wives, geezers and geezerettes next to minor Pooh-bahs and nabobs yakking on cell phones. Snatches of French and German drifted by, and Japanese, and Minnesotan ("So you think it's going to be a long time then? Or no?"). And all of us praying the same continuous silent prayer to the Great Internist to let the tests come out clean and please no colonoscopy today...
Over the course of such a strong Vikings campaign in Birk's rookie season, the sixth-round draft pick and native Minnesotan learned from listening, watching, and even seeing action in seven games...
...MINNEAPOLIS (Democratic): Wild rice; chokecherry jelly; the book How to Speak Minnesotan; presidential nesting dolls...
...recent new Coen Brothers' movie of course brings us to the question of the new national underground lingo necessary eventually to replace African-American dialects, in everything from gangsta to funk to run-of-the-mill infusions. Fargo gave us the possibility of Minnesotan, but the limited variation--a few maple-leaf reminscent phonetic twists and an assortment of pause formations--obviously means it won't pan out. '80s surfer lingo didn't last too long, nor can computerese. So, geeoun before the geeoun's through, and I think latinitata will res out. Nice...