Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president Chienlan Hsu '98 estimated that the TCS rally will attract about 100 people to the steps of Widener...
...More importantly, though, we want to attract people to Harvard's symposium," Kinczel adds. "These are companies that are interested in our ideas, goals and values; we want them listening...
...opened in the fall of 1995 in Wichita; Boston; Mount Clemens, Mich.; and Sherman, Texas. Three years and nearly two dozen new schools later, the debate continues. Despite warnings that privatizing public education is a recipe in which profit takes precedence over learning, the Edison Project is beginning to attract more serious consideration. Most of Edison's schools (25 altogether) are still too new to show definitive results, but initial reports from pioneers like Wichita suggest that the project may be on to something. By knitting together a new community of parents, teachers and students, Edison appears to be teaching...
...many variables that make comparison difficult. While kids in the single-sex program benefit from a higher ratio of guidance counselors to students, they may suffer because many of their teachers are green, hired almost straight out of graduate school for this program. Another factor: the program aims to attract underachievers, on the theory that they have the most to gain. To sort through these conflicting elements, the district has hired statistical experts from the University of California, Berkeley...
...vouchers unite two activist segments of the G.O.P. that don't always get along: Christian conservatives who support church-affiliated schools and free-marketers who want to foster competition for the public system as a way to force improvements. What the G.O.P. is also discovering is that vouchers may attract lower-income African Americans, whose votes usually go to Democrats but whose kids often go to the worst public schools...