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Last week at the White House, on the fifth anniversary of A Nation at Risk, Secretary of Education William Bennett presented President Reagan with a sequel that is likely to be even more controversial. Titled American Education: Making It Work, the new report tries to assess what the reform movement has achieved during the past half decade. "There has been undeniable progress," proclaimed the Secretary. "Students have made modest gains." But, he concluded, "we are still at risk...
Gauguin's achievement has always been hard to assess because so much of his late work, done between his final departure from France in 1895 and his death on the tiny, remote island of Hivaoa in 1903, was bought en bloc by Russian collectors, ended up in the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum, and has not been seen in the West since 1906. The show contains eleven of these "Russian" Gauguins...
...trouble with the exhibition of the work of Donald Sultan, which opened at the Brooklyn Museum recently after a seven-month run in other American museums, is its date. It should have begun in 1997. Then there would be a larger oeuvre to assess, a longer career to discuss, and not just a bright reputation to inflect...
Child-development specialists point out that it is difficult to assess a small child's mental abilities, because they are constantly evolving. "It's simply a bad time to be testing," says David Elkind, professor of child study at Tufts University. A youngster who cannot recognize a square one week, he notes, may have mastered geometric shapes the next...
...Bureau has always been funded by the Law School, although it occasionally receives private donations. "We get a budget through the Law School and we assess the membership every year," Sulentic says. "We also have donations coming in." Last year's budget...