Word: focusing
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...survey asked whether a number of topics—such as cultivating personal and academic integrity—should have a major focus in college, as well as whether the participants feel that these subjects are currently emphasized enough in today’s curricula...
...Ideally, the survey respondents were saying that campuses would make issues of personal and social responsibility a real focus of their curriculum, activities, and other aspects of the campus,” she said...
Thus, the divergence between East and West observed on the internet plays out again on a geopolitical scale: While the Western media has made its focus on China’s high-handed approach in Tibet, China has been more concerned with keeping its people from starving and growing restless. Despite the obvious injustice in Tibet, the prospect of much of mainland China exploding with the kind of hunger riots raging elsewhere is one that features too many human rights violations to count. In that event, the government would have likely no less hesitation in striking out against...
Some U.S. troop commanders also foresee an indefinite dependence. "When we can adjust and withdraw [from Babil province] is really conditions-based," says Colonel Thomas James, refusing to speculate on a date. Despite this, James, like many of his high-ranking colleagues, insisted that the focus should be on progress made. "Four years after my first deployment, it's amazing to see how much progress has been made," he said. But with the American praise of Iraqi troop performance far outshining the reality on the ground, it seems unlikely that Iraqi forces will be able to catch up with their...
...city’s public school system, the district had been losing nearly 100 or more students annually, and the city’s only public high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin (CRLS), was on probation for failing to meet state standards. Re-orienting the system’s focus in order to improve performance on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) would not prove easy.“A teacher stood up at a meeting and said, ‘I’ve never taught to standards, and I never will...