Word: bane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time will come soon, I know, when too-large class-size becomes the bane of my existence, and I will yearn for the days of the fall of my first year, when one of my classes had only seven students...
...overhaul of welfare. The most notable federal initiative is Early Head Start, which was created in 1994 when Congress reauthorized funding for Head Start, the 32-year-old program that brings three-, four- and five- year-olds into classroom settings in part to prepare them for school. Mary Jo Bane was working at the time at the Department of Health and Human Services (she quit over welfare reform), and she led a task force charged with finding ways to improve Head Start. Child-development experts, she says, "pointed the group toward the importance of interventions earlier than age four...
...Mary Jo Bane, a former social policy adviser to President Clinton and now a professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, will give a keynote address. Former Cambridge Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 will also speak
Ellwood and Bane have worked together for years. During the 1980s, they teamed up to work on a number or articles, including a well-known study of poverty in America...
...said he hopes that Ellwood, Bane and a host of other social policy superstars will contribute to what he called a "world-class center" at the Kennedy School