Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With too many students and too much work, high school counselors often fail to help bewildered seniors heading for college...
...from plain apathy and hidden intolerance to outright natred. Who could remain unsuspecting after the burning of the synagogues the plundering, the stigmatization with the Star of David, the depravation of rights, the ceaseless violation of human dignity? Whoever opened his eyes and ears and sought information could not fail to notice that Jews were being deported. The nature and scope of the scope of the destruction may have exceeded human imagination, but in reality there was, apart from the crime itself, the attempt by too many people, including those of my generation, who were young and were not involved...
...seek require complex mechanisms. What's at stake is our image of ourselves. What should spur us on is the knowledge that 37 million of our neighbors don't have financial protection from the costs of illness. What should help mobilize us is the fact that if we fail to act, tomorrow or the next day or week or year you or I may be among those who help swell that number...
Alper admits being worried that the project would fail until she saw her P.O. box bulging with responses. "Things were spilling out," she says. "It was the greatest feeling...
...critically and reason their way to a sound conclusion. What they seem geared to, says Professor Kurt Fischer of the Harvard School of Education, is giving the "answer, as opposed to learning how to make a good argument." Some experts blame the nation's colleges for this, saying they fail in their vaunted claim to teach people to think. But two researchers who have devised a new way to measure reasoning power now believe most college students are not ready for mature critical thinking. Wisdom, the researchers suggest, really does come only with...