Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leader in the assessment movement, Alverno College in Milwaukee, WI, uses an "ability-based" curriculum to foster such growth. Fields of study are de-emphasized; instead students are tested in eight cross-disciplinary areas such as communication, analysis, and aesthetic response...
Most faculties, however, continue to test students without consciously analyzing what abilities they seek to foster, Adelman said. Advocates of ability-based curriculum feel that these educators force students to learn facts that are not critical in a world of rapidly developing information technology...
DeNiro's character, it turns out, is just that kind of rain. Shaving his head, toning up his muscles and donning an arsenal of firearms, Travis sets off to do battle with the Big Apple and rescue a child prostitute, played by Jodie Foster. Although this film contains none of the directorial trickery of later. Scorcese classics like Raging Bull, gutsy realism and DeNiro's superb characterization make Taxi Driver an eloquent and powerful expression of an individual's rage against society...
Some see it as a way of filling the ranks of the military at a time when the pool of new 18-year-olds is shrinking. Others regard it primarily as a way to foster a work ethic while meeting the nation's domestic needs: restoring parks, cleaning up inner cities, repairing roads, caring for the elderly, tutoring children. Proponents of the idea still disagree as to what extent the program should be mandatory or voluntary. Yet there is growing talk these days among politicians of various stripes about instituting in the U.S. some form of national service, a program...
...system of national service," says Presidential Hopeful Gary Hart, "will ask young Americans to return some of the advantages and investments they have received ; from our society." The Democratic Leadership Council, an organization headed by former Virginia Governor Charles Robb, has endorsed the notion as a way to "foster a new spirit of citizenship and patriotism...