As soon as I turned 13, she presented me with my first tube
of cherry - red lipstick and my first
pair of high heels — three - inch heels they were in those days, and I thought them not only uncomfortable but incredibly hideous — and from then on made me go to church thus shod and painted, indistinguishable from the other
eighth -
graders whose arms hadn't had to be twisted.
Researchers from RAND studying the first year
of Vermont's implementation
of portfolio assessments for fourth and
eighth graders found that the development
of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in
pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.