Word: focus
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...classroom setting, it goes without saying that young people of this age are preoccupied with other things besides algebra or sentence diagramming. If students spend these awkward years in single-sex rather than coeducational classrooms, the majority of those distractions are instantly eliminated. They can learn and focus in a comfortable environment in which they need not worry about the way they appear to members of the opposite sex. By surrounding students with others undergoing the same bizarre transformation, single-sex classrooms provide an atmosphere as conducive to self-exploration and self-understanding as to undistracted learning, an essential component...
...girls are segregated. Supporters of the 445 such classrooms nationwide insist that separating the two sexes will allow students to learn better. For the most part, they claim that females will be more likely to speak up in a classroom where there are no males and that males will focus more on learning and less on showing off to the girls by causing trouble. In general, we are in favor of innovative education methods. Yet reverting to single-sex education is an ineffective and potentially harmful experiment that simply should not be conducted...
Radcliffe Dean Barbara J. Grosz said she decided to focus this year’s gender conference on law for two reasons—she recognized that law greatly impacts women’s rights campaigns and she wanted to engage Law School faculty into the conference. [SEE CLARIFICATION BELOW...
...There are good reasons for the Administration to focus on the banks. The first is clarity. In recent days, the President has highlighted his long-term plans for education, energy independence and health care - all of which, he argues, are essential to the long-range vitality of the U.S. economy. But to borrow from Keynes again, in the long term, we'll be dead, and in the short term, the LIBOR rate - that esoteric measure of financial vigor - has been creeping in the wrong direction again. "The public really needs to know what he thinks is important," says a senior...
...another reason to focus - perhaps the hardest for the Obama team to accept - is that this is a rookie White House still finding its legs. That's not criticism. It's just a fact. Obama defended his vast agenda by citing John F. Kennedy, who didn't have the luxury of choosing between civil rights and a mission to the moon. But history shows that seven weeks after being sworn in, Kennedy was bumbling his way toward the Bay of Pigs. It takes time to get good at the presidency...