Word: deviationism
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The balance of power in the 18th century depended on the weight and professionalism of one's navy. Tuchman devotes a great deal of space and vivid prose to the subject, from ship design to armaments and tactics. Her conclusion: England's vaunted sea force was crippled by poor leadership...
Koch's plan reflects a needed sense of realism, in the view of conservatives as well as many liberals. In more than a dozen states, officials have been inching in a similar direction. But in a country that speaks in the same breath of the right to liberty and the...
The three staged a symposium on triremes that attracted scholars from Greece and eventually led to the construction of a small section of the warship, which was successfully tested on the Thames. Intrigued by the undertaking, Greek officials offered to build an entire trireme. The actual building process, which took...
NO ONE really learns anything from either section of the QRR. Most freshmen prepare for both in a 30-minute cram the night before the test. They stuff the few necessary facts into their minds, spill them onto their papers and into the computers and, after the test, promptly dispose...
When school officials learned what Kozol was teaching, he was fired for "curriculum deviation." Thinking back on his dismissal, Kozol said last week, "I think the students suffered because of the symbolic bitterness of having just lost a teacher who had put poetry, and poetry written by a Black man...