Plangere Penala Quotes & Sayings

Third Wave technology will also change how we measure success in the classroom. What good is an annual standardized test, after all, once teachers and parents can get detailed reports with a wide range of metrics, comparing their students on a regular basis to others in their class or school or state? In this way, big data on individual students will do for education what standardized testing never quite could: bring quantitative precision to a qualitative learning process. — Steve Case

Pete Berman sized up his competition like a predator lining up its prey. Gerry Williams dribbled once with his left hand, stopped on a dime, and nailed an open 15-footer. He had played on the Fellingwood Varsity Basketball Team since his freshman year, and was now a 16 year-old boy in a man's body. Pete sat on a board of the old splinter-ridden, wooden stands fixed on Gerry, but he was unable to defend his turf. His team was losing badly again, and the waiting was pure agony. — Phil Wohl

I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs ... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker. — Joan Smalls

And I know
That they will never
Keep me down
Because there is always
An exit window
That leads somewhere
No one else will go
And the gambling bastards
Well, they always leave it unlocked
Yes, they do — Matthew Quick

I believe in the brief eternity of the rose. — Marty Rubin

A dream is a vision of the future, in light of the past, tainted by imagination. — Dana Lamon

When strict with oneself, one rarely fails. — Confucius

I was raised Catholic in the Midwest, so I can't enjoy anything. — Kyle Kinane

Honor to our ancestors. — Tyrone Givens

People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list. — Barry Ferguson

Jeffrey Carver imagines wonders and allows us to share his vision. — Terry Carr

Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming? — Sylvia Plath