Word: performing
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...their victims. Beginning this fall, teachers statewide will use a curriculum created at Wellesley College that tackles bullying as early as kindergarten. Administrators at Liberty Middle School in Ashland, Va., started a similar program last year. Each week teachers meet with a group of 14 students and perform activities designed to promote interpersonal skills. Administrators have also created zero-tolerance disciplinary guidelines...
...took an office downtown at the shabby campaign headquarters. And over the next 18 months, he discovered things about his father and himself and the oily internal workings of national politics that cleared the way for everything that would come after. It was as though he got to perform the ultimate act of synthesis: take his father's weaknesses--his sometimes excessive loyalty to people, his reluctance to fire or even confront anyone, his lack of feeling for what was uppermost in voters' minds and hearts--and apply his own instincts to solve the problem. It turned...
...rows of arcane symbols that describe the gravitational weirdness of a black hole and, with a flourish, pull from them equations that look suspiciously like those that govern the will-o'-the-wisp interactions of subatomic particles. What's more, the associate professor of physics at Harvard University can perform the same trick in reverse, effectively concealing the rabbit back inside...
...very Harvard network previously thought inaccessible. Indeed, it is the assistance of Harvard clubs that make our trips possible: These alums are our first point-of-contact in planning our tours and they continue to be the single greatest resource that we have around the world. For example, after performing for the Harvard Club of Switzerland on past world tours, the group was contacted by its president for a separate trip. A year ago a millionaire requested that the Dins perform at his 50th birthday, so in May the group travelled to Zurich for a post-exam, five-day trip...
...sentiments are echoed in a new book that challenges the idea that homework helps students perform better. For years it's been conventional wisdom that homework teaches kids to manage time, organize and learn on their own. And there is some statistical evidence that, at least in junior high and high school, homework improves academic achievement. But, argue authors John Buell and Etta Kralovec in The End of Homework, "both research and historical experience fail to demonstrate the necessity or efficacy of ever longer hours of homework." Kralovec, an educational researcher and former teacher, and Buell, a political scientist, note...