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...plus two will always equal four, says a math lesson, just as "Thou shalt not kill" will always mean thou shalt not kill. In high school economics, students are taught the need to return to the gold standard-on biblical authority. (To buttress their policy academy economics teachers cite Isaiah 1: 22, "Thy silver has become dross, thy wine mixed with water.") The academy proudly reports measurable results of this curriculum, taught in strict classrooms by teachers who view their work not as a job but as a calling: the five-year-olds, who attend for only half-days, read...
...hiring tenured women in the University's 345-year history. Harvard appointed four female professors, who will boost the number of tenured women to an unprecedented 16 when they assume their posts July 1. That burst prompts Thomas E. Crooks, special assistant to Rosovsky for affirmative action, to cite 1980-81 as a "breakthrough year...
Some professors cite Skocpol as a female junior professor who suffered from departmental male biases. "Theda is a very good case to talk about standards," one female professor says. "Objectively she's attained all the outward trappings of it--all the external credentials, all the awards, her book's got fabulous reviews. Since she's clearly made the standards, people are pretty upset...
Civil rights advocates cite the continuing Justice Department objections to proposed election laws as evidence that the Voting Rights Act indeed is still necessary. Shelving it would mean that each disputed proposal would have to be challenged in court; meanwhile, the new law would be in effect until the court acted. As former Mississippi Governor James Coleman said in 1960: "Any legislature can pass a law faster than the Supreme Court can erase...
...situation has a self-perpetuating appearance, when many collegiate male coaches cite the lack of AAU coaching experience as the reason for the women losing out on jobs...