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Algebra exam scores soar in S.C. school
Being Great from 3 to 8
Hear no, see no, speak no algebra
The Star Academy Program: Saving lives one student at a time.
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Algebra exam scores soar in S.C. school
Just over two years ago barely 50-percent of students at Carolina High School & Academy were able to pass the South Carolina Algebra EOC exam. The abstract nature of Algebra I was a mystery to half of the students who took the test, and these percentages...
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06-04-2010 12:11 PM
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Being Great from 3 to 8
Many of my generation can certainly remember when the bell rang around 3:30 at the end of the school day. Books were deposited in our school lockers, and we were off to football practice, an after-school job, or a leisurely stroll that would lead us home...
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05-24-2010 10:53 AM
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Hear no, see no, speak no algebra
This is hwo many stuednts look at albegra. It mihgt as well be wrttien in greek. For soem, albegra is the fisrt cuosre in scoohl wehre tehy enconuter abtsratc cnopcets, and most of tehm stugrgle to see hwo ablerga reltaes to the rael wolrd. It’s...
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05-12-2010 3:00 PM
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The Star Academy Program: Saving lives one student at a time.
Some have called it the silent epidemic . Others refer to it as a crisis that must be fixed. But for the estimated 7,000 students who drop out of high school every day, it's a very real, and very devastating event in their lives, and statistics tell...
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05-12-2010 2:45 PM
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