Word: comer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech at the Harvard Education Forum last night, education reform expert Dr. James P. Comer criticized "silver bullet solutions" to educational problems and stressed the need for a deeper, long-term reform effort...
...School problems are many-layered and many-faceted, and we're not going to make a difference overnight, "Comer said, while describing the conclusions of his recent book, Waiting for a Miracle: Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems...
...Problems in our schools and education are reflective of problems in society and culture as a whole," Comer said to the about 150 educators, parents and students gathered at the Graduate School of Education...
...shown their cards: one of their new lines of attack will be to simply dismiss urban renewal prima facie as running contrary to the interests of their primary constituencies. And, although the Mayor seems sure to win this particular election, this new argument appears to be an "up-and-comer...
...like Sheldon. That's no mean feat for a patrician publisher, but there are signs that the crusade is working. So adroitly hasForbes courted the religious right since last year's election that G.O.P. elders who once treated him as an amusing sideshow now talk of him as a comer to watch in the early stages of the 2000 campaign. "No one is laughing now," says Republican Congressman Bill Paxon...