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...last month's meeting, CUE members discussed a proposal to place the mean grade as well as class size next to the student's grade for each class. The plan drew little support...
Maria E. Kaibel, Sarah E. Light, Drew D. Hansen, Monica Salamon, Jordan T. Schreiber and Boggs received the news Saturday after interview sessions at six of the eight regional districts around the country...
...times Alan Rudolph, the director (and co-writer) of Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, seems to have a larger purpose, which is to challenge the supposed glamour of the bright, bibulous young writers who drew themselves up to the round table at Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s. Yet Rudolph remains of two minds about his subjects. He wants them to charm us, but he also wants to show how their infinite distractability stunted their lives and careers. His ambivalence creates not an intriguing thematic tension but merely confusion...
Forer's modest proposal drew support from a few child-welfare experts like Joyce Ladner, now acting president of Howard University, and from such conservative social theorists as Charles Murray and James Q. Wilson. "Not all families are worth preserving," Wilson wrote. "And . . . foster care has its own problems. We don't know as much as we should about how well institutional care might function under contemporary conditions." (To which Murray added, "Think of it as 24-hour day care...
...Improvement, and it felt friendly and homey," says Ressner, "more like a Midwestern summer-stock rehearsal than the place where the No. 1 TV show was being prepared." Senior editor James Collins, who supervises TIME's arts and entertainment coverage, wasn't surprised by the unusual candor that Ressner drew from Allen during their interview. "Stars are asked so many questions by so many reporters," says Collins, "that it takes someone with real intelligence and sympathy to get them to open up and say something honest and fresh. That's one of Jeffrey's great skills...