Word: focused
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Like the IEM, the Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education (MLE) has changed since it was created in 1978 to encourage creation of continuing education programs. Because most colleges have now committed to such programs, Baden says, the focus of MLE is on teaching new administrators skills for continuing education and addressing concerns of directors of these programs...
...program's 105 participants came to Cambridge this July for a 10-day series of workshops. The focus of the program is "sharing, reflection, writing and reading," in order to examine changes--and strategies for dealing with those changes--in the secondary school system, according to Nancy Broude Tepfer, Coordinator of Program Administration at the Principals' Center...
...conference now goes into closed-door committee sessions which may last several weeks before the foreign ministers return to Paris at the end of this month or early September. Three of four committees will focus on specific aspects of the complex peace process...
Israel's olive branch to the Palestinians was tentative: West Bank schools will be allowed to function for a limited 17-week term, ending in late November. If any school becomes a focus for violence during that time, it may be shut down. It is likely that classes will meet in two shifts of only four hours each, which could help to minimize that possibility...
...urban scene at its most urbane. Clean taxis and great apartments appear in a trice, and no one's upscale job deprives him of quality time for soul scratching. But in both films the surface prettiness is just a device; it clears the cityscape of its daily detritus to focus on what matters: love, sex and friendship...