Word: broader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ferrick says he regrets the shift from the broader social action of the 1960s to the "private and the personal" because "the foremost characteristic of an educated person is a social conscience...
Whereas Ferrick focuses on political disenchantment, Steinberg, the director of Hillel takes a broader view. He points to the "collapse of ideologies" as the primary reason for students' returns to religion...
...more than simply become white; they adopted an already oppressive caste structure and polarized it along color lines, so that they became even whiter than native northern whites had ever been. There are also structural problems early in the book, such as a preponderance of evidence which obscures the broader arguments. Awkward syntax and glaring grammatical errors like transitive verbs left dangling without objects appear in the early chapters but vanish...
...main question to be addressed in this context is not so much affirmative action in itself, but the broader matter of diversity as it relates to the quality, breadth, and texture of student learning. The primary purpose of diversity in university admissions, moreover, is not the achievement of abstract goals, or an attempt to compensate for patterns of past societal discrimination...
...such a debilitating learning disorder really be remedied by playing games? Other experts, while praising Tallal's work as provocative and challenging, remain skeptical. Tallal, they point out, has not yet demonstrated that her therapy is effective for the broader population of dyslexics. But as Yale University's Dr. Sally Shaywitz, a behavioral pediatrician, acknowledges, "We don't need to speculate. We can carry out studies that answer this question...