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Her narrative in some ways mirrors her own life, according to the Scholastic Books Web site. Back when she started writing the books, Rowling was a divorced mother going through a difficult period. She wrote the first book in a coffee shop where she could bring her young daughter.
"A lot of people were going to the Internet.It shows us how people get things," says Ringen, who adds that Scholastic has coordinated future Harry Potter release dates with British publisher Bloomsbury.
Butler played on state-champion teams Winchester (Mass.) High in 1995, 1997 and 1998 and earned All-Scholastic, All-State and All-New England honors in her last two years. She was also named the 1998 NSCAA/Adidas Massachusetts High School Player of the Year and an All-American.
These problems, however, are purely external, and say nothing about the emotional trauma which this testing system puts students through. America's most famous standardized test, the SAT (presently named Scholastic Assessment Test, formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test), provides the best example of the potential emotional harm to students. According to...
This may, admittedly, be my own fault. I have, until this point, subscribed whole heartedly to Harvard's scholastic model. I have bought into the prevailing system of incentives, sought the celebrated rewards, tried to avoid the relevant punishments. In so doing, I have, for over three years now, conditioned...