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...think there is a genuine political concern--an anxiety and maybe phobia--among followers of NAS. They consider the quest for curriculum presence by Blacks, Asian-Americans, Latinos, women, gays etc. politically too radical or too leftwing, unlike the centrist and establishmentarian political thrusts that were behind earlier curriculum expansion like policy studies, regional studies...
...this week, but her legacy is firmly in place. Her potential Tory successors proudly describe themselves as disciples of Thatcherism and pledge to continue it. More impressive still is the opposition Labour Party's turn from leftist economics and unilateral nuclear disarmament in the past three years toward more centrist policies to compete with Thatcherism at the polls. Even if Labour wins the next election, the public will not allow it to reassemble the huge governmental edifice Thatcher pulled down...
Today's "new" Democrats--typified by Wilder--sound like Reagan (or at least Bush) Republicans. Underpinning this New Mainstream is a centrist agenda through which the first elected Black governor hopes to achieve Democratic control of the White House. The agenda compromises former Democratic beliefs on many issues...
WILDER is not alone in this call for a centrist agenda in the Democratic Party. Promising state-elected Democrats including Ann Richards of Texas, Dianne Feinstein of California and Andrew Young of Georgia have all embraced at least some of these centrist ideas. In addition, more established Democrats such as Georgia Sen. Sam Nunn, probable 1992 hopeful Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas and Rep. Les Aspin of Wisconsin have made their careers by standing firmly in the center and ringing the bell for moderation...
...battle over educational vouchers blurs ideological lines by pitting theorists of the right and the left against cautious centrist reformers and the custodians of the educational status quo. The idea was popularized by economist Milton Friedman in his 1962 conservative classic, Capitalism and Freedom. Liberal activists then gave the notion a brief vogue in the early 1970s as an experiment sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The Reagan Administration tepidly tried to revive vouchers in the mid-1980s, and George Bush gave lip service to the concept during the 1988 campaign. But the current intellectual momentum stems from...