Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pollsters' daily tidings showed Bush still ahead by 51-42 in a nationwide survey taken for NBC and the Wall Street Journal. New polls also showed a tight race in New York, one of the country's most Democratic bastions...
...nine-point lead found for Bush in the NBC-Wall Street Journal poll was in keeping with what sources said were private soundings taken for the two candidates. Only 35 percent of those reponding to the public survey said they were pleased with their choices, and 61 percent said they wished other candidates were running. The survey, of 1285 likely voters, had a margin of error of three percentage points...
...central issue is the problem that American minority scholars face--both students and teachers--as they struggle from a minority perspective within the "majority culture" of white middle-class America. Asian Americans, Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans all wrote for the journal...
Ceasar L. McDowell, one of three special issue editors for the journal, said that "It's easy for Blacks to talk about racism and its effects by themselves, but this puts racism right in the hands of readers. It reaches a 'mainstream.'" McDowell is a 1988 graduate of the Graduate School of Education and a professor at Boston College...
Several high school and college writers were included in the journal, including Christian Neira '91 and Concord high school student Imani Perry. Perry wrote an essay on the differences between private and public secondary school education, the former of which she sees as learning how to conceptualize, the latter a matter of "making things seem correct...