Word: scoring
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...their statistics, the state Department of Education gives a student who misses the test a score of 200, the lowest possible score. This practice distorts district-wide results in Cambridge, said Barbara Black, who analyzes test scores for the district...
...came at this game at the end and didn't have the scoreboard on, you wouldn't know it was 2-0," Wheaton said. "We wanted to score; we didn't come out here to lose. We felt we could win it, we felt we could give them a battle, and I think we did that today...
...hard to find one who's going to break his or hers. Frank Straka, a Bush-Cheney elector from Arizona, tells TIME, for example, that he won't switch even if Gore wins the popular vote nationally. "It's like the playoffs," he says. "One team may score more runs, but if they don't win the four games, they lose...
Bush kept to himself, stayed on the phone, worked on his speech, practiced for the debates. Everyone was whispering about it; some couldn't quite believe it; but everyone was a little relieved, a little proud; and everyone knew the real score. "He couldn't act out too much," said someone who was there. "His mom would have killed...
...creative team have been replaced, while lyricist Lynn Ahrens, who wrote Ragtime with her partner Stephen Flaherty, has faced the challenge of simulating Seuss's inimitable poetry--"trying to keep the gist of that," Ahrens says, "while trying to find different rhythms so there can be variety in the score...