Word: normalization
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...whom couldn't read. It had been tested on 805 first-grade students in six school districts during the 1998-99 school year, and the results were impressive. At low-performing schools where most first-graders had shown no progress toward reading, a majority now advanced at a normal rate. But, says Thompson, "we couldn't take it to scale. We had all these schools with all this need, and we only had the money to do it small"--until the Barksdales got onboard...
...friends in W, I would mock him until he cried littlegirly-fashion tears, though I would first have to find a good excuse for having read W, and my normal "It's at my barber's" wasn't going to cut it. I knew a photo shoot would involve random people touching me, which I have finally learned always sounds a lot better than it turns out. Besides, I'm not photogenic (see last week's issue, page 8). That's why TIME uses a drawing in the middle of this column instead of a picture. You cannot imagine...
...Thinking as an intern, I knew my signature couldn't possibly be traced if this package was lost, but with typical intern bravado I looked like I had signed many of these before. As I stood near him, the temperature in the office building seemed to rise from its normal level of refrigeration. The room also filled with a rich musty scent of a courier at work...
...Trouble With Normal," b: "People Who Fear People...
...Percentage of their normal-birth-weight siblings who graduated from high school...