She did well this year and next year she hopes to go one better.

今年她干得不错，她希望明年更上一层楼。

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Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

仅仅是在小学的一年里有一位优秀的老师，就会让学生们在青少年时期成为母亲的可能性降低一些，而上大学和在28岁时赚更多钱的可能性增加一些。

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One way to start this transformation process could be to go beyond the "five-year diploma model" to adapt curricula to lifelong learning.

启动这一转型过程的一种方法可能是优化“五年文凭模式”，调整课程以适应终身学习。

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With the fiscal cliff and its double whammy of expiring tax breaks and spending cuts, this has to go down as one of the strangest year-ends on record.

FORBES: Year-End Tax Planning Despite The Cliff

Yaounde, Cameroon (CNN) -- Michele Mbala Mvogo, a 17-year-old high school student, left home to go to school one morning, and she never came back.

CNN: City panicked by wave of suspected ritual killings

Regular polls by one newspaper show that reporting of crime this year has been at an all-time low: victims go to the police only one time in five.

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