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...clutch of anti-family sitcoms is exploring the squalid underbelly of domestic life. And making a killing. ABC's Roseanne is the No. 1-rated show on TV. The Simpsons, on the Fox network, is a smash mid- season success; it and Fox's Married . . . With Children, airing back-to- back on Sunday nights, have jumped into the Nielsen Top 20, an unprecedented triumph for TV's fourth network...
Educators have been fretting for years about the state of math instruction in American public schools. In one attempt to get students on track, Congress in 1965 passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, sending a back-to- basics message that it hoped would improve achievement in math and other subjects. Last week the results of such efforts were totted up in a newly released study titled The Mathematics Report Card -- Are We Measuring Up? Its assessment of the performance of U.S. high school students in 1986: "Dismal...
...patio shop, a Christmas shop, a florist, crafts, a do-it-yourself shop. This generation now, such better buyers! We have a diagnostic service with two horticulturists, a do-it-yourself design shop. After the war and Victory gardens, horticulture died, as far as I'm concerned. Then the back-to- the-landers brought vegetable gardening back in the 1960s. It took the mystery out of it. Light. Heat. Sun. The right spot. All you need. People got involved. Houseplants took off in the '70s. In the '80s, the focus moved outdoors. We sell it as landscaping, an investment that...
...Released studies titled First Lessons and What Works, advocating back-to- basics principles for elementary schools. Says Bennett: "The Chicago school board has adopted a homework policy based on What Works...
...with inarticulacy-such was Guston's art. "Human consciousness moves," he remarked in the mid-'60s, "but it is not a leap: it is one inch. One inch is a small jump, but that jump is everything. You go way out, and then you have to come back-to see if you can move that inch." As the paintings prove, he could...