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Those critical reports, including Involvement in Learning from the U.S. government's Office of Research and Development of Education (ORDE) and the Carnegie Foundation's College, have "put assessment front and center" on the higher-education agenda, according to Cliff Adelman, senior associate in ORDE...
Most faculties, however, continue to test students without consciously analyzing what abilities they seek to foster, Adelman said. Advocates of ability-based curriculum feel that these educators force students to learn facts that are not critical in a world of rapidly developing information technology...
Several officials said Backman intended to pressure committee members by his presence, adding that the hearing was conducted with unusual attention to procedural form and that the Department of Public Safety's legal counsel, Stanley Adelman, made a rare appearance...
...Baby Boom, the 76 million Americans born in the fecund years between 1946 and 1964, reaches mid-life. Former White House Wunderkind David Stockman and Actor Sylvester Stallone (Rocky, Rambo) turn 40 in 1986. So do ex-Mouseketeer Carl ("Cubby") O'Brien, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency Director Kenneth Adelman, Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump and Comedian Gilda Radner. At the tail end of the boom, the last members of the vast litter are graduating from college this spring and stepping into a not notably waiting world. Members of a generation that has made a pastime out of prolonged adolescence...
...There is concern over water contamination,"Adelman told a Senate committee yesterdayafternoon. "It is on a river. We've got to assumethe water level is relatively high. The burningcore at 4000 degrees is at such an intensetemperature, if it goes into the water you couldhave serious, serious problems withcontamination...