Word: peterborough
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When Alexis Muskie talks about her daughter's experience learning to read, she begins to cry. Muskie, whose father-in-law was the late Senator and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, lives in Peterborough, N.H. Before her daughter Olivia entered first grade, it became apparent that she would need some extra help, and so she received phonics tutoring in addition to her classroom instruction. But the school district had adopted the "whole language" approach to teaching reading. "There was a conflict between the special-ed teacher and the whole-language teacher," Muskie says. "The whole-language teacher was saying...
COLIN RIZZIO is the kind of guy seniors want around when they're sitting the SATs. While taking the math exam in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Rizzio thought one question seemed ambiguous. "I wrote it down afterward and discussed it with my teacher," he says. Rizzio was right. The algebra question asked students to compare two values, but neglected to specify that the key variable, a, was positive. Rizzio realized that a could be negative, creating the possibility of two answers. He E-mailed the College Board, which, for the first time in 15 years, admitted it had made a mistake...
...Burden of Desire), and plan a possible PBS series on the information superhighway. In the past 10 years he has diversified his public personas, including playing host on the PBS documentary series The Story of English and assuming the leadership of the MacDowell Colony, an artist's sanctuary in Peterborough, New Hampshire...
...told him, "You know, I think you have a novel in you." Gray tells the audience that he was skeptical, but decided to give it a try. Gray felt, however, that he was "too extroverted" to be able to write, so he applied to a writers' colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, the same town upon which Thorton Wilder based Our Town when he was a resident there...
...English bishops, his successor will be named by the Prime Minister and formally appointed by the Queen. Thatcher, raised as a Methodist, is probably not sorry to see Runcie go: she has been vexed by his pleas for the suffering poor under her economic policies and doubtless agrees with Peterborough's Bishop William Westwood that "the church needs to take a less high profile" under its next leader...