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There's Good News From The Nation's Classrooms, Chester Smolski
There's Good News From The Nation's Classrooms, Chester Smolski
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"Last May at the finals of the National Geographic Bee held in Washington, DC, Alex Trebeck was getting concerned because he thought that he would be running out of questions for the ten finalists who came from throughout the country. Well, he did have enough, although it was close.
In the previous year it took just 80 questions to determine a winner of the Bee, an annual event sponsored by the National Geographic Society in which over five million kids nationwide from grades four through eight compete. In 1999, however, it took 140 questions before a winner was determined. In …
Counting Quality, John Strassburger
Counting Quality, John Strassburger
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This is the fifth in a series of occasional papers about the challenges confronting students and what Ursinus is doing to help them enter adult life.