Word: jerseyed
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...paroled from the general prison population. Blitzing young people into acceptable behavior through terror has been tried before and has failed. Ohio experimented with "shock probation" in 1965, sentencing first offenders to the penitentiary for 90 days. The disastrous results were indolence, sodomy and violence. ) Prisoners at the East Jersey State Prison in Rahway played real-life roles in which they confronted juvenile offenders on probation to demonstrate the violence behind the walls. Subsequent studies by Rutgers University showed that the 1978 film Scared Straight frightened the lesser punks into proper living, but the more sophisticated toughs came to view...
...with a new school-financing plan by May 1, 1990. Everything from a hike in state sales and tobacco taxes to a first-ever state income tax is expected to be on the table. Similar cases are pending in Alaska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee and New Jersey. These efforts to equalize spending within states, however, may be just warm- ups for a far more radical notion: equalizing spending between states, a move some educators now consider inevitable...
...Texas case reignites a national debate over inequities in funding. -- New Jersey seizes control of a failing city school system...
Yard said that one part of NOW's strategy was the use of "Freedom Caravans," already in use in New Jersey and Virginia, "to educate and recruit pro-choice voters." Yard said that the caravans were unifying the voters and creating awareness among politicians of the support behind abortion rights...
Some state teachers' unions have opposed legislation aimed at luring job switchers, arguing that it allows unqualified people into the classroom. However, many mid-careerists charge that the traditional system is too rigid, forcing even seasoned professionals to take two years of what New Jersey Education Commissioner Saul Cooperman calls "Mickey Mouse" education courses. Both camps agree on one point. Says Katherine Foster, 34, who gave up dentistry for the classroom to become a ninth- and tenth-grade teacher in San Benito County, Calif.: "Teaching is more rewarding than anything I ever imagined...