Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With a menu offering everything from "VE RI TASty" frankfurters to grilled-cheese sandwiches to the "Heart Attack," a double cheeseburger with bacon and an egg, the Tasty attracts a continuously bustling crowd. Patrons who aren't lucky enough to snag one of the 15 bar stools end up having to stand and eat shoulder-to-shoulder...
...marketplace in personnel, and this has required the development of uniform educational standards. Everything from the peer-review system in science to the SATs and ACTs is part of an effort to find ways of comparing students and schools from all over the country. That most of these efforts aren't explicitly run by the federal Department of Education should not obscure their nationalizing effect. Few high schools would dare proclaim that they weren't going to prepare their students for the SATs. But American education is still quite local in one crucial way: individual schools have the freedom...
...while certainly not resistant to hav-ing money thrown at them, tend to cling tenaciously to the principle of local control. In a poor neighborhood the public school system is often the biggest employer. Teachers, administrators and school-board members desperately want to keep their positions, even if they aren't doing a good job, and quite often there is very little pressure on them to do better...
...wonderful when bad schools can be fixed just through parent and community involvement. When those things aren't present--and they aren't always--the bad schools still need to be fixed, because otherwise the students who go to them won't learn and will be doomed to lives of poverty. Two things are required, both of which Americans are heavily invested in believing we don't need in education: government money and external government control...
...bleacher seats facing the audience, you fear the worst. Side Show, the first new musical of the Broadway season, tells the real-life story of Daisy and Violet Hilton, Siamese twins who became a hit vaudeville act in the 1930s. Everybody is curious about such human oddities--and aren't you ashamed...