Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks. When they sing the song of summer in Philadelphia, they aren't kidding. Across much of the U.S. these days, summer school is in great demand for kids who flunk standardized tests and must either pull up their scores or repeat a grade. But summer school costs money, and with rare exceptions over the past 10 years, Philly's public schools haven...
...people who we used to be. Today, they are intentionally placing us once more in the same spot where we began our years here, and today the president and deans of Harvard will try again to make us nostalgic and to offer us advice. But this time, we aren't the people sitting in the back who have been through it all already. We will not know until many years later whether or not the speakers are right...
...Nowadays, university presidents aren't thoughtto speak out as much as they used to. It isn'tthat Neil makes major policy pronouncements, butthere is work done in a more indirect way,"Armstrong says...
...group can't run anything--it never hasanyplace," says James L. Fisher, co-author ofThe Effective College President. "You'vegot to have accountable people who pay the piperif things aren't done effectively...
...There used to be stores for the students, but I'm told that students aren't buying that stuff anymore, that they go to malls and buy discount," Gifford says...