Word: 1980s
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...Johns Hopkins University, studied 800 Baltimore students and found that repeating a year benefited some at-risk students. Yet those retainees "were still just hanging on or barely passing" after they finally advanced. Even the extra assistance Chicago provides its retained students may not be enough. In the early 1980s, after a similar clampdown on social promotion, New York City hired 1,100 new teachers and put all retained kids in classes of 18 or fewer. But the students' scores gained no more than those of comparable low achievers who had been promoted in previous years. And by high school...
Novick criticizes the bloating and misuse of the Holocaust in the 1980s and is scathing on what he calls "deeply offensive" claims of Holocaust uniqueness. He agrees with author Leon Wieseltier that survivors have become "the Jewish equivalent of saints and relics," and suspects that the growing cadre of "Holocaust professionals" assures that such trends will not reverse anytime soon...
...University's committee on physical planninghas already begun to investigate the possibilityof relocating the University's Cambridgeprofessional schools--the Law School (HLS), theKennedy School and the School of Education--to the52 acres of undeveloped land Harvard bought inAllston during the 1980s...
...campus and the city are undeniably safer that they were during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when long-time HUPD officers recall arresting suspects weekly for armed robberies. A Safer Square...
...campus and the city are undeniably safer that they were during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when long-time HUPD officers recall arresting suspects weekly for armed robberies...