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...knowledge that they can deploy, as opposed to just passing a test.'' It is no coincidence that Dalton began its plunge into technology with the Archaeotype program. Excavation is an apt metaphor for the kind of ``constructivist learning'' promoted at the school: students must actively dig up information, then construct their own understanding from raw, observable facts. What the technology does is extend experience so that many more observations are possible. ``It shifts education from adults giving answers to students seeking answers,'' says headmaster Gardner Dunnan. The underlying premise: we all understand and remember what we have discovered for ourselves...
...American Melting Pot has fallen on hard times. It was first rejected in the late 1960s by Marxists and relativists from the Left who claimed the idea of an American culture was some ethnocentric construct designed to preserve the power of the white majority and annihilate the heritage and values of non-white groups...
...newspapers? They have often been dumped in landfills because there wasn't enough demand for recyclables. Now there is, and the reusable trash is surging in value. The price of old newspaper increased more than 400% in the U.S. in the past year. And companies are scrambling to construct trash-reprocessing plants -- a sure sign that recycling is here to stay...
...fact that we find across cultures and across time a preponderance within societies of women who nurture rather than dominate suggests that such a tendency is more than a social construct. The caring female is a natural phenomenon...
...think once certain people make the argument that tenure equals academic freedom, then you have a construct that is rigid and I think false," said Andres Diehl, director of communications at Bennington...