Word: adaptational
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...rewards will always suffer from disappointment. "The priorities and needs of the government, technological change, and economic conditions can always render obsolete the value of whatever kind of education you have," she cautions, "But the fact that you have that education may provide you with the intellectual flexibility to adapt yourself as the needs of the country change...
Shirley Hufstedler is learning to adapt to the changing requirements of her environment. With the initial building stages of the Department of Education well under way and seemingly in control, Hufstedler has already come a long way from the babe-in-the-wooods stage that many predicted she might languish in for the balance of her career. The bureaucractic teeth Hufstedler has pulled thus far, as she readily admits, are just the beginnings of the business of being a Cabinet secretary. With any luck and agood deal of support from below, Hufstedler may defy the experts and the critics...
Altogether, Eurich estimates, the 1978 freshmen read no better than 1928 high school seniors. "Students today have greater difficulty in understanding what they read," he says. "Instructors have to adapt to a lower level of reading ability in the texts they assign and the amount they can expect students to cover." Indeed, in 1928, roughly half of Minnesota high school students studied Latin or another foreign language, and they learned to cope with knotty classic texts. Today Latin is offered in only 16 of the state's 600 secondary schools, and English courses are less structured and demanding. There...
...anything, the French Communist Party's sudden retreat to Moscow proves its incapacity to adapt to a pluralistic democracy. Too scared to complete in the political forum on its own, the party crawls back to the Kremlin for support. Complete separation from Moscow means political and ideological uncertainty. Why take risks when a defensive millitant position at least ensures survival? Though costly, realignment with the U.S.S.R. provides an escape from a situation where the PCF was forced to clarify its politics...
Stephen Bailey, professor of Education, who helped to draft the report of the Carnegie Commission for the Future of Public Broadcasting, and Henry Becton, general manager of WGBH-TV, offered different perspectives on how public television could best adapt to meet the needs of the public...