Word: foundedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kanrisha Yosei Gakko was founded in 1979 by Ichiro Takarabe, a former educational-materials salesman. Takarabe's aim was to turn out more aggressive salesmen and managers, breaking down the traditional Japanese reserve. He started with six students in a small wooden shack on Tokyo Bay, but the school expanded...
Using the sky as a focal point for education is the brainchild of a retired Boston newscaster, Jack Borden. Ten years ago, while hiking, Borden gazed up and felt the jolt of an epiphany. "I had never really noticed the sky before," he recalls, "and its beauty, majesty and fragility...
Other administrators, however, say that the evaluators' criticisms were well-founded, although limited by their short stay at Harvard.
The Conant Fellowships represent just one recent effort by the University to increase its involvement in urban schooling, says Superintendent Peterkin. In 1984, a group called the Cambridge Partnership was founded in order to improve education in the city, and Peterkin attributes much of Harvard's recent participation to that...
But the lower incomes of Robertson's followers are due in part to the fact that he got the youngest vote in Iowa, just as President Reagan carried the young in 1984. A 1979 study by the Princeton Religion Research Center found that 54% of Evangelicals are under 50 years...