They tout miracle cures for poor academic performance by many minority youth, promote non-stop testing, and blame teachers for all the problems of the universe.
If districts would use the statistical models endorsed by Gates, and give them the weight that the foundation wants, and if they assigned four classes of twenty to all middle school teachers (as the MET did), and if systems would not respond with rote, basic skills instruction and non-stop test prep, then teaching and learning would be transformed.
In the Egyptian-American enclaves of Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey, the quotidian was suddenly defined by agitated channel-hopping (Al Jazeera to CNN to YouTube), an umbilical tethering to a computer or iPhone screen, and a non-stop stress test that tracked alternating currents of buoyancy, pessimism, doubt, and rage.
We've had a week and a half of non-stop doctors' appointments, batteries of tests, children saying contentedly, "Hmh, another takeaway", all culminating in the discovery that size isn't everything, after all.
I've been testing it non-stop since Monday October 23.
Even though 48 hours non-stop swimming is always a test of endurance and focus, the point here is community spirit and important fund-raising for people in need.
Our testing includes a non-stop Google Image search — the phone never sleeps or rests from 100percentt green to death.
The two minute walking test measured the non-stop walking distance in meters.
His non-stop election tour of the country would test most politicians.
On Tuesday, Byrd said he would put the Republicans to the test of an old-fashioned, non-stop, talk-all-night filibuster.
For those looking to test the player, Channel 677 on ubroadcast is currently the "TechCrunch Test Channel" and is playing non-stop music from the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
