Word: approaches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though some critics worry about the implications of incorporating monetary incentives as a standard practice in childhood education, Fryer hopes that taking an economical approach to a social problem will yield positive results...
Thanks for a balanced look at New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, warts and all [June 25]. Both are in their seventh decade, yet their approach to politics is progressive and refreshing. No conservative clichés and smoke-screen social issues; just good old-fashioned compromise and common sense. Isn't that what governing is all about...
Bloomberg and Schwarzenegger are successful because they serve constituents rather than political interests. They don't govern with a my-way-or-the-highway approach but are willing to reach across the aisle, admit mistakes and change direction. Rather than issue a test on what it means to be conservative, they deliver what the people and environment need...
...parents who successfully challenged the Seattle plan favored a pure choice approach, with a lottery to handle assignments at oversubscribed schools. They say Seattle's high schools are already racially diverse (Chief Justice Roberts seems to agree), and that the city's overall diversity will keep them that way. "Sixty percent of students are minority, and 80 percent of them want to go to the top five schools," says the parents' lawyer, Harry Korrell. "So you're going to get a heavy minority representation no matter what." The district, though, argues that segregation in the city's neighborhoods will soon...
...More entrepreneurial districts have used aggressive marketing-glossy brochures, marketing classes for principals - to recruit students for certain schools. That approach seems to have worked to maintain diversity at Montgomery County, Md., Lee County, Fla. and Duval County, Fla. schools, says Maree Sneed, an attorney who helped represent the Seattle School District in the case decided today. Magnet schools engage in a form of marketing by attracting students through special, often high-level, programs and classes. Their record is mixed at best on creating racial diversity...