Word: gone
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...look at what has gone wrong inside both school and classroom, TIME correspondents visited three U.S. high schools that are not afflict ed with the intractable problems of core city schools. One is in Medford, Mass., a Boston suburb. One is a small-town school in Coos Bay, Ore. One is a middle-size school in Iowa City, Iowa. All are fairly representative of that historic backbone of America's public education system, the public high school. A tale of three cities...
...racing around the circle of desks in the room. His point, although garbled, is that pen manufacturers must be careful not to overprice or their products won't sell. When a student volunteers that his Bic pen cost 39¢, it strikes the teacher as a revelation. "Really? Have they gone up that much?" The kids loll back, tittering. "Would you cry if you lost a 39¢ pen?" he asks. "How about a $150 pen?" By now the class is thoroughly lost. "What are you getting at?" one obviously bright student asks impatiently...
...yourself,' " she explains. Acting Superintendent David Cronin agrees that teaching the basics and reinstating grades in the elementary schools are the burning issues in Iowa City. He sees the concerns as legitimate but also feels that the clock cannot be turned back entirely, that "the good old days are gone...
...basics" is shared by parents and school administrators across the U.S. Indeed back-to-basics is the latest rallying cry among U.S. educators, who are yet again attempting to define the purpose and direction of American public education. Some educators find it easy to agree on what has gone wrong with the schools. Says...
Little wonder then that many of Nader's legislative goals remain unfulfilled. Besides the consignment of the Consumer Protection Agency to limbo, his effort to get Congress interested in a law that would require federal chartering of large corporations as a means of enforcing ethical behavior has gone nowhere. A bill that would make it easier for consumer cooperatives to get bank loans squeaked by the House with one vote, but is stalled in the Senate. A measure that would have helped consumers fight adverse FTC decisions was rejected by a House committee earlier this year...