Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Two years after the University secretly bought 52 acres of land across the river in Allston, outraging many residents, Harvard is beginning to develop plans for the new property. A physical planning committee is considering several uses for the land in the years and decades ahead; among their ideas is...
Harvard, however, must learn from its mistakes. The University should not develop the land the same way it bought it--without regard for the Allston community. No matter how attractive a new "academic precinct" might sound to University planners, convincing residents already leary of Harvard that it will be good...
For those parents who are considering home schooling as an alternative to America's often politicized and sometimes dangerous public and private schools, Allison and Heuer are attractive models. But they may not be representative. Not all products of home ed turn out to be academic stars. Many home-educated...
Imposition of a dress code or uniform should be one of several changes designed to improve standards in your school, along with those that promote more parental involvement and higher academic standards. Goldman believes that to introduce a new clothing policy "as part of a wider array of policies and...
SAMPLE ACADEMIC FARE: Problem Solving for Pet Sitters ("How to handle break-ins, workmen, house keys and weather disasters"); Profiles in Pet-Sitting Success; Dental Care for Dogs and Cats; Pet-i-Zens, a seminar on caring for elderly pets from Thom Somes, "the Pet Safety Guy."