Word: comer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent recipient of the Heinz Award in the Human Condition, Comer was honored "for his profound influence on thousands of disadvantaged children through his visionary approach to public education...
...Comer described how his parents-a domestic worker and a steel mill employee-raised their children in rural Mississippi and helped all five earn college degrees...
...Comer said attempts to reform America's schools should include efforts to remedy the economic and social problems of America's communities that cause problems in the schools...
...Comer called for giving teachers additional training in child development. He said that relationships and experiences within the home and the community, rather than innate abilities, are the key to academic success...
...Comer, the Falk professor of child psychology at Yale University and the director of the Yale Child Study Center Development Program, was introduced by Richard F. Elmore, professor of education at Harvard, as "a towering figure in education reform...