Word: honig
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...array of other prominent citizens praised Milken's charitable contributions and personal interest in medical research, anticrime programs and other causes. Among his advocates: police chief Daryl Gates and Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, California superintendent of education William Honig, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Occidental Petroleum chairman Armand Hammer. But is Milken a Johnny-come-lately to good works? Not so, according to his friend, attorney Richard Riordan. "This isn't like he began doing good because he felt the heat," says Riordan. "He's been doing this for years...
...concerned, than Asian Americans. They don't have many models in our history books." Other educators worry about judging a curriculum solely on the basis of its treatment of racial and ethnic issues. "If you take this to its logical conclusion, you get Lebanon or Northern Ireland," says Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction...
...what most rankles among politicians, parents and scholars is the angry tone of much revisionist rhetoric. Reformers who want to vilify Christopher Columbus because, they say, he slaughtered Native Americans may miss larger truths. "We don't study the Greeks because they had slaves and mistreated women," points out Honig. "Our job in education is to put ideals before kids." But the questions are, Whose ideals? and How should they be portrayed? -- all of which promises to inspire clashes in American classrooms for the foreseeable future...
...harshest attacks against Chubb and Moe have come from some of the educators most sympathetic to incremental reform. "Their book is a profound example of the intellectual community's abandoning our most important democratic institution," claims Bill Honig, the California superintendent of public instruction. The choice model of rewarding schools for attracting students rather than successfully educating them troubles Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. "If your goal is merely to recruit students," Shanker says, "you can do that by offering a trip to Disneyland or with a good football team...