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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carnegie recommendations add up to a middle school that is part classroom and part social-welfare agency, a combination that is bound to make some educators uneasy. "Middle school administrators have got their hands full just trying to educate kids, let alone creating warm, caring environments," says Samuel Sava, executive director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals...
...interest in freedom of the press. In the summers he went on school field trips into the mountains to stay with the cossack herdsmen. That too left an impression. "He could tell the difference between the life of the ordinary people and the life of the leaders, and he got ideas from these people," said a friend. In 1988 he entered Beijing Normal University. He told friends he wanted to study Chinese literature but felt compelled to pursue an education degree because the Uighurs were in dire need of teachers...
With his concern for traditional workmanship and his devotion to organic simplicity, Nakashima tends to be disdainful of many of the latest generation of craftspeople. "They're trying to be Picassos," he says. "They've got all the ego and glitz and high gloss of modern art. But crafts don't need that. | They can stand up by themselves...
...Since Tony Trabert succeeded at Paris in 1955, not one of the grand Americans -- not Stan Smith, not Arthur Ashe, not Jimmy Connors, not McEnroe -- had ever won the French. And the brazen way Chang finally did it galled McEnroe, 30, who muttered the fairly amazing statement, "We've got to teach these kids some manners...
Edberg took the 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 2-6 defeat better. "I had my chances, but I missed too many break points. I got a little tired in the fifth. Then it was too late." Edberg is only 23, but everyone in Paris felt a little older. "Chang's young," he said. "Maybe he doesn't think that much." By four months, Chang displaced two-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker as the youngest major champion of the modern era. With his charming, sidearm delivery, Becker, 21, said, "Almost-the-older-ones you have to call...