Word: bennetts
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Pluralism and its consequences swept through the College in 1988-'89 like no other year. Even as humanities scholars embraced the legitimacy of "different voices" from the Western traditions advocated by men like former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett and University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom, the realities of living with diversity caught up with students in the Yard and the houses and with University officials...
Bush appointed former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett "drug czar" and accorded this post Cabinet status, but doesn't even allow Bennett to attend Cabinet meetings. He banned the import of semiautomatic assault weapons, the firearms of choice of drug lords, only to subsequently refuse to ban domestic manufacturing of such weapons. Of course, Bush's membership in the NRA, which somehow seemed less disconcerting to the electorate than Dukakis being a "card-carrying member" of the ACLU, may have a lot to do with these incongruous and contradictory policies...
...retain Lauro Cavazos as Secretary of Education. The move was widely applauded: in addition to being the highest-ranking Hispanic in the new Administration, Cavazos was an amiable former president of Texas Tech University whose reputation for consensus building contrasted sharply with the contentious style of his predecessor, William Bennett. But the honeymoon is over. Reflecting the view of a growing number of critics, Andrew Griffin, executive officer of the Georgia Association of Educators, dismisses Cavazos as "all talk, no action...
...less combative tone than we've had in the past," says Wilmer Cody, Louisiana's superintendent of education. "It's a style that's needed right now." Specifically, Cavazos acted to change a much criticized policy on federal student-loan defaults, projected to reach $1.8 billion this year. Bennett had made the draconian proposal to bar all schools with default rates of 20% or higher from participating in the program, but Cavazos scrapped that plan shortly after taking office. Later this month, after reviewing public comment about the problem, he is expected to issue more flexible guidelines targeting only...
...last year that would extend existing programs and create new ones, including dropout prevention. Legislation to promote alternative certification programs, Bush's suggested method for combatting the teacher shortage, has gone nowhere on Capitol Hill, say detractors, because Cavazos has failed to rally public support. "People were critical of Bennett's bully-pulpit role," says Ramon Cortines, superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District. "But at least he kept education on the agenda. Cavazos hasn't done that...