Word: center
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Principals' Center...
Another of the Ed School's bigger summer programs, The Institute on the Principal and School Improvement, focuses on administration in secondary education. This program is run under the joint auspices of the PPE and the Harvard Principals' Center, a local year-round organization of approximately 500 people who attend weekly seminars, dinner lectures and workshops during the academic year...
...this July for a 10-day series of workshops. The focus of the program is "sharing, reflection, writing and reading," in order to examine changes--and strategies for dealing with those changes--in the secondary school system, according to Nancy Broude Tepfer, Coordinator of Program Administration at the Principals' Center...
...such modest goals sound like crazed radicalism? Because, a male observer is forced to admit, men and male-dominated institutions are exceedingly timid about revolution. Perhaps, however, Hochschild's prickly, irritating, distressingly reasonable book can help us to see the next step. The call used to be for soft-center males, studs who could cry. That was silly. Men don't cry. They brood, and mutter, and sulk, sometimes for hours on end, while on TV the Red Sox are slowly dying. That's fine, the author is saying, but not while there are children to be bathed, dinner...
...angler's relatives. Fly-fishermen can quickly become world-class bores. Solitude becomes an end in itself. Spouses bristle at the suggestion that family vacations should consist of two weeks at some bug-infested fishing camp in Forsaken, Mont. Dinner-party invitations trail off as conversation seems to center on the pleasures of fishing nymphs in deep riffles or the relative merits of bamboo and graphite fly rods. Children growl at the proposal that the backyard pool be returned to nature and converted to a trout pond...