Word: generationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The study recommends few solutions that are not already part of the education-reform movement: more homework, higher performance standards, more parental involvement and more work in core subjects. But the report also suggests that tests and curriculum be recast to make students analyze what they know rather than just...
But Knowles says that the alternative to intensive recruitment is equally impracticable. "The opposite extreme is unthinkable: we'll just stop recruiting for four or five years. That would be outrageous. A whole generation of scholars would have no opportunity for academic advancement. It's bad for that generation, but...
One alternative, according to Riesman, is to insure that aging faculty members secure emeritus status, a title he says will help professors remain involved in the academic community without displacing a younger generation of scholars.
But the need for those smaller colleges to keep providing an influx of fresh blood for Harvard is contingent upon one thing: Will the University's already-tenured professors decide to hold on to their jobs or move aside for the next generation?
"In the union drive, we've said all along we're not the 'me' generation," Rondeau says.