Word: progressivity
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Despite noisy protest rallies in Massachusetts and Virginia last spring, support for high-stakes testing remains strong. In a new poll for the Business Roundtable, 68% of those surveyed say students should pass statewide tests to graduate; 75% think that even elementary schoolers should have to do so to progress on to the next grade. Said Bush last week on a six-state tour promoting his education agenda: "Measurement is the cornerstone to reform...
...Kiss represents another example of Gore's exhibitionist premeditations - another exploitative glimpse of family intimacy, lubricious this time, from the candidate who in 1992 devoted eight minutes of a previous convention speech to an excruciating description of his sister's death from lung cancer. Perhaps Gore's progress from morbidly remembered death to passionately anticipated sex should be seen as a good sign - evidence of a sunnier opportunism...
...fueled by oil wealth that somehow misses the great bulk of the nation's 120 million people, a bumper crop of construction cranes pierces the Abuja skyline. The capital remains very much a work in progress. Many governmental functions and satellite offices - like the U.S. embassy, for example - remain a 10-hour car ride away in Lagos. The stark poured concrete design of most of Abuja's buildings contrasts sharply with the lush green palm fronds, reddish earth and mud, and huge distinctive outcroppings of coarse black volcanic rock that constitute the capital's older and more natural skyline...
...Rank of Dick Cheney's book Professional Military Education: An Asset for Peace and Progress...
...comes the big question: Should you try to stop early puberty in its tracks? Many girls who enter puberty at age seven or so seem to progress through it slowly and grow up none the worse for it. The important thing for parents is to make sure their children understand that what they're going through is natural and to prepare them for the mood swings and teasing they may endure...