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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's budgetmakers find it easier to leak than...
...learning. "We saw that in the years SAT scores went down," she says, "the year before, textbooks had also declined," The roots of dumbing down go back to the 1920s, when schools began systematic testing of students and concluded that the curriculum was too hard. "They made the curriculum easier," says Chall, "and they made it easier, and they made it easier." The principal target was the textbook, which provides from 75% to 90% of the curriculum content. A key instrument was a set of readability formulas designed to measure the difficulty of a text. Most of the formulas...
...easier to sell a pumpkin to the American public than a lime: Rooney's book, unlike Royko's, is on The New York Times Best Seller List, number four for the week ending October 31. I can only hope that Halloween had something to do with it, but people this month, too, are preferring the trick to the treat. Royko should expect this, though, for it was Mencken who noted. "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people...
Both Fines and Tsosie agree that coming to college is to "go capitalist." They say they have no qualms about using the whiteman's way. "We are not assimilative, we are adapting," says Tsosie Gawboy goes even further: "It's easier to destroy something from within than from without "You're out for yourself first," adds Fines...
...most difficult task of all is deciding which computer to buy. Although Apple and IBM have emerged as the industry leaders, their success has not made the choice any easier. For example, in the market for business computers, where IBM is dominant, shelves are crammed with IBM look-alikes-machines that follow IBM's specifications down to the color of the keys, although they sometimes offer improvements in power or price. The market is now crowded with some two dozen of these IBM clones. Says Michael Shabazian, president of the ComputerLand chain of retail stores: "The differences between products...