Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In efforts to make public education more efficient, the Board eliminated 50 under-enrolled academic degree programs and has limited the number of remedial education courses offered at 4-year campuses.
"I really wanted it to be something that would appeal more to people's personal experiences and to their unguarded selves than to their finely tuned academic minds," said Hennessy-Fiske, a social studies concentrator from Albany, N.Y.
She has also won a place on the 1999 USA Today All-USA Academic First Team and was selected for the 1998 U.S. Renaissance Games, an academic, arts and athletic fair for college students from across the country.
If crime in the classroom is an epidemic, it's like tuberculosis--one we basically control, with a few flare-ups every once in a while that beat the inoculation. Overall, school violence is not going up. Just 10 of every 1,000 students were the victims of serious violent...
The current manifestation of Gothic culture began with the British punk scene in the early '80s. Bands like Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Joy Division created the atmospheric doom-rock sound. A clothing style evolved that was part Johnny Rotten, part Anne Rice and all black. Acolytes sometimes took...