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...sensible thing for any effective teacher would be to fend off such theories as best he can and go on teaching. As teachers are fond of saying, "Teaching occurs behind closed doors." But theory, some of it foolish and damaging, inexorably seeps under the doors and into the classrooms. For example, the sound idea that teachers should concentrate on whetting the interests of students and stirring creativity has been unsoundly used as an excuse to duck detailed schoolwork. Says Columbia's Teachers College Professor Diane Ravitch: "It is really putting things backward to say that if children feel good...
...recent history, and it provided a blunt reminder that even billionaires can get in over their heads. With their dreams of cashing in on last winter's silver boom now transformed into mushrooming debts of $980 million, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar Hunt have been struggling all spring to fend off ruin. Papers on file last week in the Dallas County Courthouse, and elsewhere around the country, showed just how desperate their plight has become, as well as the extent of their fabled wealth...
...prestige of winning the Gold Medal (the chain or its papers have received four previous Pulitzers, the last in 1971) should help Gannett fend off critics of chain ownership. More than 63% of the nation's 1,769 dailies are now owned by groups, double the percentage in 1960, and independent papers are being gobbled up at a rate of 50 or 60 a year. What bothers critics most is a reduction in the diverse, often lively voices of independent newspapers. There are complaints, too, that chains tend to be obsessed with profits and indifferent to editorial excellence. Says...
While struggling to help devise an anti-inflation strategy for the nation, the Carter Administration's top financial officer has been fighting his own battle for political survival. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller has had to fend off charges, resulting from a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, that he perjured himself during the 1978 Senate hearings preceding his confirmation as Federal Reserve Board chairman, a post he held until he moved to Treasury in July 1979. Last week Miller's prospects for survival as a member of the Administration brightened considerably. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti announced that...
Rather, the aim would be to allow Pakistan to fend off minor Soviet border incursions and to control its own ethnic separatists in case Moscow should try to foment rebellions among these minorities...