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Although apprenticeship can be a highly effective tool, it requires greater personal involvement and a deeper understanding of the subject matter than most conventional teaching methods. To help make up for the shortage of professionals skilled in this technique, educators look to a new generation of computer-based teaching tools that work with students much the way a teacher does, walking them through incorrect answers to show where they went astray. The key to these new tools is the concept of apprenticeship. Says Lauren Resnick, past president of the 14,500-member American Educational Research Association: "Apprenticeship has the promise...
...spin of the wheel has made not only a construction worker but also a Yale history professor and several fresh college graduates richer than they ever could have imagined. Publishers say the bull market for manuscripts has become "hysterical," "desperate" and even "silly." Still, most of them cannot help playing the game...
Among other family features: payments of up to $2,000 to cover costs when workers adopt children and a $5 million fund to help support and establish child-care centers. But the benefits were not free. In return for these and other new provisions, employees agreed to forgo automatic cost of living adjustments...
...first alert came from Correspondent David Aikman, a former Beijing bureau chief who had returned there from his present base in Washington to help with our coverage. "The army has made a semi-serious effort to break into Tiananmen Square," he reported. "The police launched a tear-gas attack, and a number of people were injured. Unpleasant incidents are taking place. We saw six people carried off. Huge numbers of bicyclists and pedestrians are in the streets. There is a feeling that a serious move may be tried...
Those limitations should help allay the worst fear of biotech watchers: the new technique could be used by unethical researchers to manipulate the genetic makeup of humans. "It's amazing if true, and would make our work much easier," says Steven Holtzman of Embryogen Corp., a biotechnology firm with labs in Princeton, N.J. But no one is about to abandon the standard technique until other scientists complete tests of the Italians' work -- a process that is already well under...