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Under the controlled-choice plan, parents write down their top choices among the district’s 12 primary schools. Rather than assign students to schools by neighborhood, the district balances parent preferences with socioeconomic characteristics to determine which school each child will attend...
...could find [information] verbally,” said an exasperated Councillor Marjorie C. Decker after Kelley filed legislation asking Healy to produce information about the difference between speed bumps and speed humps. “Why have someone sit down for two to three days to write a report that may not meet your needs...
...relocated to Los Angeles, where he pragmatically capitalized on every opportunity he came across. “A lot of people are very precious of what they work on—I fully respect that. I was working up to improving my skills and learning how to first write the song,” he said. After working as a music producer and penning a few successful songs for TV (including the theme to “Who’s the Boss?”), Kraft was asked to score a movie. “I had no idea...
...phenomenon stems in part from the disconnect that students can legitimately feel when they move from Expos to courses in their concentrations, where writing assignments in the disciplines place new demands on them. What counts for evidence in psychology, for example, is different from what counts for evidence in anthropology, history, economics, literature, or the life sciences. What is considered an interesting question in one discipline will be irrelevant in another. No single Expos course can possibly equip a student to know how to write as a specialist in a field, much less in several...
...work intensively with their students to guide them in thinking logically and deeply, not glibly, about intellectual problems, supporting claims with evidence, anticipating and transparently confronting countervailing evidence and ideas, and honestly acknowledging and effectively deploying sources. The course also introduces students to the intellectual and emotional experience of writing as a process—discovering and revising ideas by writing and re-writing, giving and making use of feedback. Taken seriously, a course in Expos can be transformative and transportable for all students since all will inevitably be asked to write and think analytically for the rest of their...