Friday, March 30, 2012

New York City Bans Divorce

  • Should the word divorce be banned from standardized tests? The D word is part of a recently released list of more than 50 words and references that the New York City Department of Education hopes to strike from city-issued tests.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • In an effort to eliminate potential unpleasant emotions among students, the New York Department of Education has placed a ban on mentions of birthdays, dinosaurs, Halloween, and dancing, in city-issued tests, the New York Post reports.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Students in New York City's public schools cramming for tests can delete junk food, abuse, terrorism, divorce, any references to disease and holidays.
  • (ABC News)
  • I wasnt surprised to hear there are plans to update tests in the New York City schools. But I was surprised to hear Or talk about Henry VIII without the word divorce.
  • (The Stir)
  • Add the autographs of all four members of the band and you have one of the great Beatles collectibles Very Popular - resulting in her suspension from the studio and her move to New York City where she started her own production company.
  • (Art Daily)
  • After college, she briefly worked at a bike store and as a singer in a bar band. Two regulars at the bar worked for a nearby NBC bureau and helped her get a job there.
  • (Detroit Free Press)
  • City educrats have incorporated the gist of the joke into their test rules. Seriously.
  • (New York Post)
  • We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in His stock in trade is the unexpected, John Deck wrote in The New York Times in 1971.
  • (Tampa Bay Online)
  • Critic Daniel Mendelsohn pointed out, in a 2011 piece in the New York divorce.
  • (Globe and Mail)
  • 1985 _ Singer Billy Joel and model Christie Brinkley, in New York City. They married on a yacht in the Hudson The duo exchanged wedding bands designed by jeweler William Goldberg. Actress and talk show host Ricki Lake and Rob Sussman, in Las Vegas.
  • (nola.com)

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