Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagan strove hard to hold the line. Emulating Nixon, he designated a dozen state senators whom he found particularly difficult. All five of the dozen who ran this year won. Reagan supported the re-election of Max Rafferty, the ultra-conservative state Superintendent of Public Instruction; Rafferty lost to a moderate black educator, Wilson Riles (see EDUCATION...
...education, where man's affective aspect is largely overlooked, the movement is probing a long-neglected area. Max Birnbaum, associate professor of human relations at Boston University, who believes that this neglect is in large part responsible for the counterculture subscribed to by the younger generation, feels that the answer to youth's disaffection might lie in the new movement. He sees the day when the learning experience will involve a group of peers, "in contrast to the traditional classroom, with the teacher as an authority figure and the students as charges." This model is already taking shape...
Republican superintendent of Public Instruction Max Rafferty was defeated by Democratic black deputy, Wilson Riles. The Democrats took control of both Houses from the Republicans in the California state legislature...
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...Max Rafferty is to California education what Spiro Agnew is to national politics-a spellbinder of alliterative conservatism. Eight years ago, Rafferty swept the nonpartisan race for state Superintendent of Public Instruction by denouncing "permissive, pragmatic progressivism." He lost a loud bid for the Senate two years ago, but has since delighted his admirers by advocating mass searches for drugs in student lockers, by presenting guidelines for "moral instruction" that criticized pacifism, and by urging science teachers to give "equal time" to the Adam and Eve account of creation...