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Bennett lashed out at those who he believes are to blame: the "educational establishment," and, particularly, teachers' unions. "You're standing in the doorways, you're blocking up the halls of education reform," he charged. Bennett assailed those who engage in what he calls "opposition by extortion, the false claim that to fix our schools will first require a fortune in new funding." Instead, Bennett somewhat vaguely recommends strengthening curriculums, rewarding good teachers and principals, and instituting "accountability" throughout the education system...
Nowhere is this more evident than in Chicago. Despite what Superintendent of Schools Manford Byrd calls a "flurry of ((reform)) activity," studies show that the dropout rate remains 46% overall and 56% for minorities. Earlier this year, Bennett declared Chicago schools to be the nation's worst. Critics claim that the reforms have been little more than lip service from a bureaucracy with no intention of changing. Those innovations that have made it into the classroom may have done more harm than good. The back-to-basics emphasis, for instance, makes no sense in a system that has already...
Always in the art world, as in a madhouse, there are bad painters who obstreperously claim to be prophets. Gauguin was that discomfiting figure, a great artist with little modesty who made good on strident prophetic claims. He saw himself as both Christ and savage, sacrificial lamb and initiator of cultural mayhem. The whole tangle of the "primitive," so basic to early modernism, begins with Gauguin -- not in Tahiti but in Brittany, "savage and primitive," he wrote, where "the flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting...
...collegiate community.) Further, it must also be recognized that "Black" Greek letter organizations were formed due to exclusion from white fraternities and sororities, thereby fostering some of the apparent polarization between the two coexistent groups. Our fraternity, however, has since overcome this historical indemnity and can now claim members of all ethnic groups...
Another catalog eulogist, Lynne Warren, noting Sultan's commitment to formal painting and his commendable lack of interest in grabbing quotes from visual mass media, winds up with the startling claim that "his works are meditations on the possibilities of transcendent meaning for an audience that has forgotten . . . how to believe." Aw, come on. There is nothing "transcendent" about Sultan's work. It is decorative and materialistic. Most of its motifs come from photographs, not direct observation; its style is distanced and gloomily elegant, enlivened by discreet erotic puns between, for instance, lemons and breasts...