Word: havighurst
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wonder, did you mean by saying "Nothing about them smells of bluegrass"? Bluegrass has evolved since Bill Monroe as much as jazz has since Louis Armstrong. It is full of innovative, nontraditional artists right now, and Nickel Creek's musicians are only the most visible among them. CRAIG HAVIGHURST Nashville, Tenn...
...Dallas decision inevitably fueled speculation about desegregation plans in other cities where the magnet school concept is under consideration, most notably Chicago and Los Angeles. "Dallas isn't big enough to be a test case," said Robert Havighurst, professor emeritus of education at the University of Chicago. "Chicago and Los Angeles will be the real testing ground." In Los Angeles, Diane Watson, the only black member of the school board, thought the decision would spur greater desegregation efforts. "In light of what's come out of Dallas," she said, "I think that our current plan will certainly...
...Manhattan lecture, Dr. Robert J. Havighurst assailed this angry band of skeptics as "non-responsibles" who were distorting the truth about the urban schools and imperiling reasonable hopes for improving them. A visiting professor of urban education at Fordham University, Havighurst argued that outraged accounts of ghetto education are convincing the public that the schools are in a state of inexorable decay. In fact, he answered, today's city schools are superior to those of 1920, 1940 and 1960. Their textbooks and curriculums are better designed, their teachers are better educated, classes are smaller...
While applauding the moral concern of the educational critics, Havighurst added that unwary readers of their widely publicized views "get little pieces of reality without seeing the whole complex reality." The baleful picture creates a public disillusionment, which in turn creates a defensiveness on the part of teachers, which in turn complicates solutions to the real problems of the city schools. What is needed, said Havighurst, is "a moratorium on purely negative criticism of the public schools...
...other departments, the following students were elected: James M. Murphy 2L and David M. Wishnick 2I, as article editors; Clay C. Long 2L and Lloyd L. Weinreb 2L as case editors; Steven R. Barnett 2L and Bruce J. Havighurst 2L as note editors...