Word: adoptionism
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Is adoption the answer? As a school social worker who deals with the results of our foster-care system, my response is an unequivocal yes. No child should languish in foster care year after year while parents try to get their act together. You emphasized the abuses that take place...
Even the chair of Wellesley College's Alcohol Advisory Committee S. Joanne Murray, who presided over the adoption of a policy focusing more on education than enforcement, concedes that "there is some evidence that it's a good deterrent to notify parents." Wellesley town police pushed hard for the college...
The adoption of a uniform national voting technology might be a good idea, but it's something almost no one expects to see. For one thing, it would require poor districts and rich ones to agree on what is affordable. "The states are rightly in charge," says Curtis Gans of...
Ruff's major contributions to the FLA during his tenure included leading the process that named Sam W. Brown, Jr. as FLA's executive director and overseeing the drafting and adoption of the "Monitoring Guidance and Compliance Benchmarks," a document that provides explicit guidelines for factory monitoring.
Opponents of the Electoral College system have argued quite convincingly that it restrains popular choice. The reasons for its original adoption--a desire to empower states and fear of regional candidacies--were undemocratic and no longer apply to modern society. Because the Electoral College separates the election into districts, it...