Word: free
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HUSO should be allowed to succeed or flounder of its own accord. If it lacks student support, it will fail in the free marketplace of ideas...
They lost the race for class marshal, they didn't even make class committee, and their busy, busy schedules have an extra hour a week they can devote to an impressive-sounding activity. Of course, it's all done for free, although that extra entry on the resume, something like, "Senior Gift fundraiser: ruthlessly solicited money from extremely unwilling classmates for the Greatest University in the World," is payment enough...
...state owes Cambridge City Hospital $3 million in reimbursements and compensation for its free care pool provided in fiscal 1987 and 1988. The commonwealth also owes the hospital $2.5 for unpaid fiscal 1989 Medicaid, and current year payments for uncompensated care are expected to lead to an additional $1.7 million owed by the state, the plan states...
...demands of a changing society, many teachers are encouraging a spirit of inquiry. Some ninth- and tenth-graders are choosing their own elective courses. Rote learning, long the mainstay of education for the 42 million students in the nation's 130,000 schools, is beginning to yield to free debate. Like America's system of local school boards, councils made up of trade-union and party members, parents and students have been created to give people more control over their children's classrooms. Boring textbooks that only timidly touched upon the terrors of Stalin have been withdrawn. Until new textbooks...
...been blunt about the failings of teachers. Many cannot be replaced or re-educated, he says; the system is simply stuck with them. Money is another problem. Yagodin has promised to double the budget for new school construction and teaching materials. But the biggest need, he feels, is for free thinking. Says Yagodin: "The school badly wants more democracy." In the end, only a generation of new teachers, trained in the era of glasnost, may be able to carry out the sweeping school reform so crucial to changing Soviet society...