Word: experimention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"I think there remains a large body of people on the council determined to make the experiment with new ways to take action a success," Franke-Ruta said. "I hope we can bring these different opinions into a successful working relationship."
A few years ago, the concept of privatization--in which a for-profit company takes over the management of some, or all, school functions--seemed like it might be a magic bullet for the nation's ailing, bureaucratically entrenched public schools. Now it appears that the champions of privatization may...
Golle says many of the criticisms are the inevitable backlash from unions and city government. "There are a whole bunch of people who like it just the way it is and would prefer that people believe that we've not been successful--when in fact we have." And it is...
The other four gods he presents contain a similar mixture of idealism and practicality. "The Spaceship Earth" depicts all humans as stewards of a fragile planet, implicitly teaching tolerance and social responsibility. "The Fallen Angel" encourages critical thinking by stressing that error is inevitable, that blind dogma is dangerous and...
ONE OF THE STRONG SUBSURface themes of Smilla's Sense of Snow, the fine 1993 thriller by Peter Hoeg, a Danish novelist then new to America, was a slyly expressed contempt for what the author saw as his country's bourgeois self-satisfaction. This much relished contempt and cheerfully malign...