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Well it might, particularly in chauvinistic academe, where males are generally considered far more likely to win tenure than females. Administrators claim that in using the gypsies, they are only doing what they have to do in the face of academe's changing needs and hardening realities. Moreover, laymen and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Academia's New Gypsies | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

QUALITY OF CARE is moving toward center stage among issues in national health care policy. With American health care now consuming nearly 11 percent of our gross national product--far less than in many industrialized countries with equally competent health care systems--purchasers of care have steadily increased the pressure...

Author: By Donald M. Berwick, | Title: Quality Care at Reasonable Cost | 12/17/1986 | See Source »

The crucial thing is to make sure children are learning while they are in school; they must learn English in order to become fully competent citizens in this society. But learning other things at the same time will not impede their acquisition of English, and it will make them better...

Author: By Catherine E. Snow, | Title: Bilingual Classes | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

Bilingual education is designed to produce competent scholars who can achieve in English language classrooms, and the evidence suggests it succeeds in this goal. Many of us believe that a slightly more ambitious goal--that of producing bilinguals, or children with competence in English and their native language--would be...

Author: By Catherine E. Snow, | Title: Bilingual Classes | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

In Kelly Ryan, the Bulldogs have an experienced and competent quarterback. The senior QB has thrown an average of 29 times a game this year, far more frequently than the Crimson QB trio, and completed slightly more than half his passes for 1679 yards and three touchdowns.

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Season Begins and Ends Today | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

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