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...many educators believe that ideology was not the problem. "There were some very good middle schools out there, but middle school reform never got fully implemented," says Jacquelynne Eccles, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan and a member of a task force that issued Turning Points, a landmark 1989 report on middle schools funded by the nonprofit Carnegie Corporation. Many districts created big warehouse-like middle schools to address crowding and court-ordered busing but without embracing the pedagogy of the movement. "They ended up looking very much like the junior high schools they were designed to replace...
...last name in honor of Baldry). He recorded more than 40 albums and had a successful voice-over career, receiving a Grammy Award nomination for best spoken-word album for children for The Original Story of Winnie-the-Pooh. died. susan gordon lydon, 61, feminist writer and editor whose landmark 1970 essay for Ramparts magazine, "The Politics of Orgasm," turned a previously taboo subject into a public debate; of cancer; in Florida. She had the idea after listening to women's groups and realizing that many had faked orgasm but were afraid to discuss it. The topic, said a Ramparts...
DIED. SUSAN GORDON LYDON, 61, feminist writer and editor whose landmark 1970 essay for Ramparts magazine, "The Politics of Orgasm," turned a previously taboo subject into a public debate; of cancer; in Boca Raton, Fla. She came up with the idea after listening to women's groups and realizing that many had faked orgasm but were afraid to discuss it. The topic, said a Ramparts editor, quickly ballooned from "a giggle to a cause," and her essay became a staple of many women's studies courses...
Nearly five years after she published a landmark paper on school choice, Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 is engaged in a fiery academic dispute over the paper’s integrity...
...battlefield may have seemed quiet of late, but the war over affirmative action isn't necessarily over. O'Connor cast the decisive vote in the landmark 2003 case Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld the University of Michigan Law School's admissions policy of taking race into account on a case-by-case basis. In a separate ruling concerning Michigan undergraduate admissions, the court said rigid race quotas or formulas were unconstitutional. Any number of groups could potentially spark a new challenge. Anti-affirmative-action activist Ward Connerly is spearheading a 2006 ballot initiative in Michigan that would amend the state...