Word: standardizing
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...sailed close to the wind once or twice this year, but we've kept up a high standard," Somerville says. "It really is exhilarating...
Math education reformers have a prescription for raising the mathematical knowledge of schoolchildren. Do not teach the standard algorithms of arithmetic, such as long addition and multiplication, they say; let the children find their own methods for adding and multiplying two-digit numbers, and for larger numbers, let them use calculators. One determined reformer puts it decisively: "It's time to acknowledge that continuing to teach these skills (i.e., pencil-and-paper computational algorithms) to our students is not only unnecessary, but counterproductive and downright dangerous...
...says the building is "not up to standard" and eventually could require as much as $12 million in renovations to add classrooms and enlarge existing ones...
...state of the industry than writing applications for Windows. Java is less powerful, and at least for the moment slower than traditional programming languages. This is not to say that the government should force the industry to adopt one platform over another, or break down the benefits of a standard...
impossibility this spring, the Crimson stands a tremendous chance of becoming a dynasty all over again, so long as Harvard's freshman and sophomore pitchers live up to the high standard they have set for themselves...