Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find myself writing this piece because of my recent forays into the world of education. Last summer I taught at the Summerbridge Miami program, one of a network of programs designed to offer guidance and academic instruction to hundreds of at-risk students in America's cities. My approach to this enthusiastic group of middle school students was influenced by several motives. The most prominent of these impulses were my feelings of optimism and shameless idealism. With this attitude I prepared to take the teaching world (or Summerbridge Miami) by storm...
Once these aspiring educators enter the teaching sphere, their carefully developed approaches are stonewalled--they are asked to conform to the increasingly rote systems of teaching. The attempts of education programs like Summerbridge to foster novel approaches to teaching are continually nullified by the teach-to-the-test approach that transforms teachers into machines. Richard L. Wade, Headmaster of the prestigious Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, refers to this trend as "packaging our schools." This process of frustrating the ambitions of would-be teachers perpetuates and validates the saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach...
...turnaround took some time. For most of the first half, the Crimson walked all over Brown's offensive third, still confused about the most effective approach to Brown's defensive formation...
...Appealing to a slightly wider audience, these are labels without designers. While The Gap has succeeded in creating a GAP style that rivals any other in the pages of Vogue, Banana Republic has taken the approach of replicating and then mass-producing the couture look, so effectively that the differences become superficially indistinguishable, wooing many among the couture crowd...
...Liebert makes the mistake of conflating Top 40 with rock music in general. Top-40 is produced and promoted by a few profit-seeking major record labels like RCA, Columbia, and Warner Brothers, which release same-sounding music in hopes of discovering the next big hit. This "rock star" approach is deeply at odds with a more vital function of rock music, that of political, social and cultural protest. As Liebert observes, it's a shame that Germans have dropped Schubert to adopt Fiona Apple. However, the true shame is that Germans (and Americans, too) listen to the inane drivel...