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Domestic politics makes it equally imperative for Clinton to be seen standing up for moral positions. He will court political damage if he doesn't speak forcefully on human rights; still, he can't place the whole relationship in thrall to this issue. Rather than dwelling futilely on token releases...
Speaking at the technical school where his eldest son, Jiang Mian Heng, received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1991, the president said that he placed "a great emphasis on education to build up the country."
The school places enormous emphasis on technology. There is an Edison-owned computer in every student's house, which has helped create an extraordinary partnership among teachers, school and parents. Children are able to E-mail homework to themselves or their teachers, while parents can review their children's progress...
In the 1970s, when students filled in endless phonics work sheets and read inane basals, and teachers felt overly controlled, whole language exercised a strong attraction. By the 1980s, it had come to dominate the teachers colleges and was strongly influencing publishers. Chall argues that the shift from a code...
The counterrevolution began in 1990 with the publication of another landmark book, Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print, by Marilyn Adams, a cognitive psychologist. Adams' purpose, similar to Chall's, was to synthesize innumerable, uncoordinated studies of reading. She came to exactly the same conclusion that Chall did...