Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even when these enthusiasts do bend to the current pressures for law-and-order, they tend to do it in their own dreamy way. At Bard, where President Leon Botstein decided last year that all students should attend an intensive three-week workshop on how to think and write, the...
(9 of 13) "That is done in identifiable ways: in sciences by experiment, conducted essentially in mathematics; in social science through quantitative and historical analysis; in the humanities by studying the great traditions We are not ignoring content but simply recognizing that because of the knowledge explosion, it makes sense...
SINCE THE DAY he was first elected Mayor of New York in 1977, Ed Koch has tried to do to his city what Ronald Reagan is now doing to the country. Even while economists were attacking the newly elected president last year for using America as a guinea pig in...
Bell, 60, a former Commissioner of Education under Nixon and Ford, defines ED's role in these terms: "There will always be a need for federal leadership activity, but we ought to keep in mind who's in charge of the schools." By which Bell means state and...
So he will. But it was never supposed to work out so bluntly. U.S. prisons were to be the ultimate social experiment, where lapidaries of the soul would smooth and polish criminals. Under what conditions? Inside locked catacombs, filled to overflowing with inmates wrenched from their families for years, all...