Word: egalitarianism
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...more important than allowing students to excel to their limit. It has become more important for schools to identify deficiencies than to cultivate gifts. Odd though it seems for a law written and enacted during a Republican Administration, the social impulse behind No Child Left Behind is radically egalitarian. It has forced schools to deeply subsidize the education of the least gifted, and gifted programs have suffered. The year after the President signed the law in 2002, Illinois cut $16 million from gifted education; Michigan cut funding from $5 million to $500,000. Federal spending declined from $11.3 million...
...world safer - as a form of protection against evil deviants. Same goes for people whose identity is rooted in self-sufficiency. You see guns as a form of independence. So gun-control laws will not fix the problem, as far as you're concerned. But if you are more egalitarian - that is, inclined to distrust authority and believe everyone should share the wealth - studies show that you probably think gun control laws are a good idea and find the Iraq analogy quite...
...coats. There were even disgruntled protesters in Harvard Yard—it all seemed in order and profoundly familiar. Over the course of the semester, however, I discovered that the Harvard I graduated from in 1982 is not in fact frozen in time. Harvard has become more modern, more egalitarian, more student-focused, and even more diverse...
...have channeled years of hard work and discipline into the ability to be dominant in a sport we loved to play as children. This also reflects our city’s patriotic origins. As we rebelled against the aristocratic British imperial system in favor of a more egalitarian government years ago, so too do we rally around a rag-tag band of brothers that play a democratic game accessible to all. While only the fortunate few can ever hope to live the Paris Hilton lifestyle, we can all pursue happiness on the baseball diamond—no trust fund...
...nothing unites Sox fans more than our hatred of the New York Yankees. We view Red Sox-Yankees matchups as battles between Boston’s working class, egalitarian values and New York’s brash, money- and power-crazed culture. We loathe Yankees owner George Steinbrenner’s endless spending to concoct an army of clean-cut automatons. We are also disturbed by his dictatorial management style and megalomaniacal personality. In fits of rage, Steinbrenner will publicly denounce underperforming players and regularly purges his team of these traitors...