Word: abstracted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SCHOOL PROGRAMS have taken a practical, unassuming approach towards schools, bringing the school's own emphasis back towards looking at what's going on in the classrooms as opposed to just focusing on abstract administrative planning. Most recently, the Ed School was awarded a $7.7 million contract from the federal government to set up a research center for studying the use of technology in computer, math, and science education. The center has already started buzzing with plans to get researchers into classrooms to see how students learn from computers Half of the money will go towards Harvard's own center...
JEFFREY ENGERUD'S case, the basis for the New Jersey ruling, translates this abstract principle into an everyday applicable rule. Sometime in 1972, a vice principal Sommerville High School in New Jersey "heard" Jeff dealt in illegal drugs. One day a detective told this same vice-principal that an anonymous parent called police threatening to take matters into his own hands if Engerud kept pushing drugs on campus. With the rumor and an anonymous phone tip, administrators broke into Engerud's looker with a pass key, thoroughly searched it and indeed found a big of speed. Police arrested Engerud...
...abstract painter cannot draw upon the history of art as a foundation for his painting, according to Stella. "It is assumed that the justification for present art must come from the greatness of the past, found generally in the Renaissance," said Stella...
When the artist surveys abstraction, however, the painter may be surprised how the development of abstract picturality can be found in 16th-century painting, with its utilization of form to create space, Stella explained...
...minimalist paintings after he moved to New York. Reaction from critics to his highly simplistic, geometric paintings has ranged from the New York Herald Tribune calling Stella's early work "unspeakably boring" to Robert Hughes of Time magazine referring to a 1978 exhibit as "the bravest performance abstract art has offered in years...