Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in the 1850s, John W. Webster, a professor at the Medical School murdered his colleague, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Minerology Dr. George Parkman, after a heated argument...
...Suspicions were aroused since the South African leader just came from Britain, and is always professing his desire to mediate in the Lockerbie stalemate ? the argument over whether the Libyan suspects should be tried in Scotland or a neutral country...
...argument for academic standards is simple: as in any other endeavor, the people engaged in education need clear goals and a way to determine whether those goals have been met. "When you put rigorous standards in place," says Sandra Feldman, president of the American Federation of Teachers, "it helps parents, teachers and students to know what the expectations are, and it helps measure whether students are meeting those expectations. This is a method of knowing whether children are learning what they need to be learning at a certain...
...Democratic leaders and most civil rights groups, the main argument against vouchers also boils down to fairness. As they see it, the great majority of poor children will never be able to take advantage of them. States will never have the money for tuition assistance for all the poor children who might want it. And private schools are selective, accepting only the kids who meet their standards, which rules out a lot of kids. If just the brightest or most affluent of the poor escape to private schools, the rest will be stranded in a public system even more starved...
...Wilson, a black Democratic legislator from Houston. In Philadelphia, the logic of vouchers has hit Dwight Evans, a black state legislator who plans to run for mayor in 1999 and who has his own poll that shows strong black support for the idea. "We need to stop making the argument that we shouldn't be looking at options [besides the public system]," he says...