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SAT scores began dropping in 1963;today,on average,30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods.

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Anyone who has patted a dog, stroked a cat, sat under a tree with a pint of beer, given or received a bunch of flowers or chosen to walk through the park on a nice day, understands that.

As I sat blocked and clueless for two solid days, I momentarily wondered if I couldn't just call an expert on the subject matter which I was tackling, or someone who took the class previously, to get me going.

It produces Science Olympiad winners, classically trained musicians and students with perfect SAT scores.

signs barring cell-phone use are a familiar sight to anyone who has ever sat in a hospital waiting room.

When they had lunch in the dining room, they sat alone at the table.

For more than two decades, starting in the 1960s, the poet Ted Hughes sat on the judging panel of an annual poetry competition for British schoolchildren.

For example, in research with 3920 college students, Doctor Snyder and his colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more accurate predictor of their college grades, than were their SAT scores or their grade point averages in high school, the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance.

As an organization of volunteers, AMSAT was putting "amateur" satellites in orbit decades before the current Cube Sat craze.

Because they're so small and light, it costs much less to get a Cube Sat into Earth's orbit than a traditional communications or GPS satellite.

I diligently attended my SAT, ACT, and Advanced Placement test preparation courses.

The first Cube Sat was created in the early 2000s, as a way of enabling Stanford graduate students to design, build, test and operate a spacecraft with similar capabilities to the USSR's Sputnik.

As I sat in my own personal heaven, I started thinking about having more.

Dad sat me down and said, "Alice, I know it's hard, but it's all about persistence (坚持不懈)."

He reported the case to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again.

Little Tom sat amazed watching the monkey dancing in front of him.

Relived, I sat back in an easy chair and fell asleep.

Steve arrived and sat in the front row, surrounded by his family.

Steve moved to the piano and sat at the bench, hands trembling as he gently placed his fingers on the keys.

That night, the two of them sat side by side at the piano.

The children sat stunned and silent.

There I sat, considering my next move.

To warm himself, the sailor sat in front of the fire rubbing one bare foot against the other.

"When Dr.Epley and Mr.Schoreder asked other people in the same train station to predict how they would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their ride would be more pleasant if they sat on their own," the New York times summarizes.

Throughout the evening, one man had been particularly talkative, frequently offering ideas and anecdotes while his wife sat silently beside him on the couch.