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...Government's poverty line. "We can't continue to produce corn and soybeans like this," says Smith. "The Government can't be the final buyer of all the produce." Farmers know this too, but they are so swept up in the choreography of the harvest that they cannot dwell on the clouds of melancholy that dim the summer sunlight...
...want to dwell on sins of the past, but put them in perspective and move forward," Sollors commented. "This book takes stock of the past in an honest...
...have been distant and somewhat troubled. He allies himself with religious Fundamentalists for political advantage, but rarely goes to church. Such inconsistencies are human enough. They point a little, however, toward a window onto the uglier side of Reaganism, if not Reagan, the side where some old American meannesses dwell--religious hatreds, fanaticism, intolerance...
Americans in their celebratory moods sometimes behave as if they had invented freedom. They have at least given freedom a splendid home. The text of the great Fourth of July birthday party will not dwell on the ugly side of American freedom (the founders reserving freedom pretty much for white male property owners and countenancing the enslavement of blacks, for example). Nor will the star-burst rhetoric discuss the heartlessness of much American freedom, the bleak lives of those who cannot compete. Freedom has a lot of Charles Darwin's logic prowling around in it, hungry for the weaker animals...
These efforts are suggestive. They indicate that research, even in its current state of development, can still throw valuable light on specific issues of immediate practical significance. Yet a comprehensive program of educational research cannot dwell only on current questions. We must also develop more reliable techniques for evaluating educational programs and teaching methods. To that end, we hope to launch next year a faculty seminar on assessment under the leadership of Professor Richard Light, an expert in problems of evaluation. This seminar, which will include representatives from other universities, will consider the current state of educational research. In time...