Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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What about women and blacks in the Cabinet? "Don't keep score," warned...
Researchers were at first encouraged to find that the preschoolers' IQ scores rose an average of twelve points above those of the control group. But these gains disappeared by the time the children had completed second grade. As they progressed through school, their grades were no better than the control group's. But the preschoolers did continue to score better on reading, arithmetic and language achievement tests. At every grade level tested, the preschool children scored higher than the control group; at age 14, they did better by a margin of 8%, a full grade level...
When the red light flashed signifying the final Tiger tally, the Crimson saw its second strong performance against a talented squad come to naught. The skaters played inspired hockey for forty minutes--passing well, holding their positions, forechecking aggressively, and creating scoring opportunities. But hockey games are sixty minutes long and the only score that counts is the one at the final buzzer...
...again, like the initially attractive isolation of the campus, the intensity of the academics can make people very unhappy. "Learning is reduced to a petty competitiveness here--everyone feels like they have to put in more hours at the library, or score better on tests than the girls next door," Rae says...
...despite furious pressure on the Bruin net the rest of the way, including several puck-through-the-crease heart-breakers and the squad's best power-play effort of the season, the Crimson (now 4-3) couldn't score again, and trudged to the locker room one-goal losers...