Word: implementation
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Ironically, K-8 schools are in some ways better positioned to implement the ideas of the middle school movement. Not only do these more intimate schools tend to foster strong teacher-student relationships, but they often put their older students in positions where they can exercise judgment and leadership. At Humboldt Park, for instance, seventh-graders have worked with the third-graders to write letters to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. "The older grades become mentors and tutors to the younger kids, giving them a sense of responsibility that may not happen in middle school," says Milwaukee parent Tina Johnson...
Hammonds’ other responsibilities will include working to implement the recommendations of the two task forces on women, filing an annual report on the status of diversity and development efforts and overseeing the distribution of funds earmarked for appointing women and minority professors...
...report, which was released in June, divides its recommendations into two categories: “short-term” recommendations, which should be accomplished by the time the class of 2009 enters, and “long-term” recommendations, which College hopes to implement for the class...
...have the ability to prevent a pandemic? This is not an easy battle. The virus is everywhere and very changeable. We are dealing with billions of animals, not just human beings. But I still believe there is a window of opportunity. That's why we should implement all the necessary strategies - cleaning up backyard farms, improving surveillance - not just on a piecemeal basis but comprehensively and thoroughly. There is no single panacea...
...historic sites will be demolished and their successors kept at least 3 km away, a process he has started with the eviction of 300 stallholders from the 2,200-year-old Ajanta Caves in central India. While he admits that finding the necessary "political and administrative will" to implement the new policy is a "difficult process," Kant hopes that "once we've created some model sites, a sense of pride in the local population and a feeling that this is doable and profitable, the effect will spread...