Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what it means to have a certain racial or sexual identity. We think those days are thankfully gone when one could easily essentialize what it meant to be a man or woman, straight or gay, white or colored, when, more importantly for Spectrum, who one was became the simple matter of checking off lists in the mutually-independent categories of sex, race, sexual orientation and national origin...
...plan only puts into writing what reformers have increasingly come to recognize: that good managers can make a huge difference, no matter how much money they have to work with. Leonard Hamm, the new chief of Baltimore's school police, says he has seen firsthand how a talented principal can reverse the decline of a school. "I'm an overly simplistic guy," he says, "but man, it's not rocket science. It takes one person saying, 'This isn't going to happen...
...wardrobe or testing or size. But there are some universal truths. A good school is a community of parents, teachers and students. A good school, like a good class, is run by someone with vision, passion and compassion. A good school has teachers who still enjoy the challenge, no matter what their age or experience. A good school prepares its students not just for the SATs or ACTs but also for the world out there...
...than public systems. Democrats hope they can defeat any drift toward vouchers among blacks if they can just make plain the implications. A recent poll conducted by Gallup for Phi Delta Kappa, an international education fraternity, found that most citizens oppose vouchers when the issue is framed as a matter of tax dollars subsidizing private-school tuitions. That finding is supported by a recent TIME/CNN poll that posed the question that way; support for vouchers was just 40% among whites and 36% among blacks...
...system represented by whole language, and, as a result, the fight is bitter and irrational. That is unfortunate, because it has been established almost beyond doubt that early, systematic phonics instruction is necessary for a large proportion of beginning readers. About 70% of children can learn to read no matter how you teach them, but they will read more quickly if they are taught phonics, and without phonics the remaining 30% may have real problems. Nevertheless, whole-language advocates, who hold powerful positions in teachers colleges and educational bureaucracies, are fighting phonics with determination...