Computers invaded my life in 1985, when my mother, a master's student at UTEP, bought a RadioShack Tandy TRS-80 4P to pound out her thesis on the negative transfer of speech sounds from second to first language.

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Mr. Kelley, a former Navy chief master who is now a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, said he had never seen carnage like this.

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Buck, a graduate student then working on a photography project in Egypt for his master's thesis, met Maree, a 23-year-old Egyptian veterinary student, in Mahalla.

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"We think it's really powerful, " said Gabriel Trisca, a Boise State master's degree student who developed GROVER's software.

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One day a student approached a Zen Master.

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Second, I consider myself still a student of subtraction, not a master of it.

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There is a sense that the American student has surpassed the British master.

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Providing feedback to students, explaining why their answers were right or wrong, and then allowing students to continue to work on a problem until they have it right and master the concept produces statistically significant gains in student learning.

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To help students master English, you need a high-quality learning environment and very dedicated teachers, proportionate to the student population.

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