Word: progressed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Pretoria, the Ciskei vote was a way of trying to show that the whole homelands strategy was worth salvaging, despite a barrage of doubts about it even by the Afrikaner establishment. For months South African editorials have de cried the lack of progress toward making the black territories self-sufficient. Said the pro-government Johannesburg Citi zen: "It doesn't take a genius to know that homeland development has failed...
...hopeful early days of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, preschool Head Start programs for disadvantaged children were set up nationwide. But then, after studying the later progress of the preschoolers, researchers for Ohio University and the Westinghouse Learning Corp., among others, concluded that Head Start made very little long-term difference in the children. Now comes evidence that the benefits of high-quality preschool programs can last at least through age 15. That finding was made by Michigan Researchers David P. Weikart, 49, and Lawrence J. Schweinhart, 33, who last week released an interim report on an 18-year...
...minute home visits at least every two weeks, assisting parents who were trying to help their children learn. The other half of the children in the study, kept as a control group, got no preschool training and entered kindergarten at the regular age. Thereafter, up to the present, the progress of both groups was regularly monitored...
...ineffective at achieving reforms. Despite polls showing that the majority of students opposed the Core Curriculum, students on CUE and the Core subcommittees did not oppose the Core. And despite polls showing that students favor calendar reform, longer library hours and alternative meal plans, CHUL has made no progress in any of these areas. Student members of CHUL say they have felt particularly impotent this year in controversies over kiosk and registration-packet regulations...
...made even more progress in his pursuit of the title of team Renaissance man. In addition to his long jump triumph, he led a Crimson sweep in the high jump with a six-and-a-half foot jump and for good measure ran the anchor leg of the JV one-mile relay...