1.   Another serious TAAS-related problem is the tendency of some teachers to drill students on formulas reputed to ace the writing test.

2.   Besides starting the day with motivational phrases, she drills the students with grammar and speech lessons.

3.   Brandy Boniface, a language arts teacher, arrived early to drill students struggling with phonics.

4.   After all, even many schools use software packages to drill students for standardized math tests.

5.   In Poughkeepsie, English teacher Laura Ahlert said she thought the exam was more rigorous than the model test that teachers had used to drill students.

6.   In the reading fight, political conservatives have insisted on the phonics method that drills students on the sound of letters.

7.   She told them how Advantage ran a direct-instruction school stressing basics, with teachers using daily scripts to drill students.

8.   Some schools drilled students for months, even during holidays, while others did little to prepare.

9.   Steve Farkas asked a professor of education recently if drilling students in basic math was very important in elementary and secondary schools.

10.   Visiting the school daily, she stands outside, listening enchantedly to the sound of his mellifluous voice as he drills the students in quasimilitary calls and responses.