Word: macro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point," Clark said, "I freaked out, hated Harvard, and wanted to leave." I through his academic studies, however, Clark became convinced that the spiritual experience he sought did in fact exist. He explored several different life-styles, ranging from macro-biotics to commune living. He even tried out guitarist John McGlaughlin's guru, but nothing satisfied...
...have to be faced before more fundamental change is realized. Schools Where Children Learn centers on what Featherstone, in an interview, called the "micro-issues" of reform, changes on the level of the school and classroom, although both his commentaries and the articles themselves have strong implications on a macro-level...
...major question with which the book deals briefly is the absence of any work as encouraging on a level higher than the primary schools. Featherstone believes that a major cause of the difference is the keener involvement of public high schools in macro-issues from which primary schools are considerably more removed. Economic and social pressures focus more sharply on the high schools, which are closer to the job market and to colleges. These may demand that more of a selection process take place according to different abilities as measured by traditional tests. In this, he is corroborated by work...
...education will not ultimately spring from research. Rather, reformers must admit where their vision is unclear and slowly work out, in practice, improvements that are fruitful. In an upcoming book on Dewy, Featherstone hopes to reflect on traditional weaknesses in the reform movement: a failure to deal with overriding macro-issues and to recognize that reformers form an interest group which must deal with other professionals and parents...
...Macro-economic policy is based on the idea that labor behaves like a commodity, but this is demonstrably not true. That's why the government's tools are only temporarily effective," Brown said...