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...students said they intend to become teachers -- the highest number since 1982. "Teaching careers have regained attractiveness because of all the attention focused on education," explains the study's director, Alexander Astin...
...pretty Andy (Kerri Green) plays the Death Organ; Stef (Martha Plimpton) socks a crone on the jaw; Chunk (Jeff B. Cohen) finds an unlikely friend who loves junk food as much as he does; athletic Brand (Josh Brolin) muscles his way through calamity; and his little brother Mikey (Sean Astin), a dreamy hypochondriac, goads his fellow Goonies toward their rendezvous with a storybook pirate. The Goonies is like a clubhouse where every Boy's Life adventure comes true. And on the door hangs a sign: ADULTS KEEP...
Newhart, featuring Bob, that drip-dry palladin of the beleaguered middle class, running an inn in Vermont with his wife (Mary Frann), could be in its sixth year instead of its sixth episode. Richard Crenna and Patty Duke Astin show up on It Takes Two (ABC, Thursdays, 9:30-10 p.m. E.S.T.) fighting the kind of lightly amusing skirmishes in the battle of the sexes, married division, on which the dust should long since have settled. A rich kid (Ricky Schroder) gives his dippy dad (Joel Higgins) lessons in modern maturity on Silver Spoons (NBC, Saturdays...
...Dante or Vivaldi. They haven't received an education; they've just had baby sitting." Nor are the criticisms entirely about intellectual shortcomings. "I think students are becoming less reflective, less concerned about fellow human beings, more greedy, more materialistic," says Alexander Astin, professor of higher education at U.C.L.A. "They're interested in making money and in finding a job that gives them a lot of power and a lot of status...
...arts and 4% in physical sciences. Rich and prestigious private universities can resist this rush toward vocational training, but public and smaller private colleges are more vulnerable. "The bulk of the institutions will have to give in to a form of consumerism," says U.C.L.A.'s Astin, "in that they need applicants and will therefore have to offer students what they want...