Word: formally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administration has always had a sort of ad hoc attitude where they deal with each situation as it comes up. We are the first ones to try to establish a formal procedure for dealing with disability problems," she said...
Apart from busing, perhaps the most controversial public school issue of the day is "mainstreaming," the growing practice of integrating physically and mentally handicapped children into regular classes. Until the past few years, most such children, if they received any formal education at all, did so only in special classes or schools, segregated from their normal peers. In part because of the efforts of parents' organizations, all but two states now have mandatory "right to education" laws, and Congress last fall passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, authorizing funding of $200 million this year, rising...
...first to admit that the contribution universities can make in building character is limited. In fact, his argument for inclusion is strongest when phrased in terms of lower expectations for the value of teaching ethics: "It is one thing to acknowledge the limitations of formal learning and quite another to deny that reading and discussion can have any effect in developing ethical principals and moral character. The basic value to be gained from any course that forces students to think carefully and rigorously about complex problems cannot be denied...
...ethics into the curriculum may have some force. He respects the claim of one Business School spokesman who, in explaining why there are no ethics courses in that school, said: "On the subject of ethics, we feel that either you have them or you don't." He notes that "formal education will rarely improve the character of a scoundrel...
Dawn was breaking over Williamsburg, Va., as four dozen largely unshaven, unfed and unrested journalists climbed into the Jimmy Carter press bus for the 374th time since the campaign's formal launching on Labor Day. Over the vehicle's public address system came the reassuring voice of Gerald Ford: "Hi! How are you? Nice to see you. Good morning. Hi! How are you? Nice...