Word: methodic
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Critics both inside and outside the school havecriticized its strong reliance on the "case study"method of teaching. The most recent issue of U.S.News and World Report ranked the school below bothStanford...
...reason the murders go undetected is that suffocation, the usual method of these infanticides, is virtually indistinguishable from SIDS on autopsy. As a result, single deaths don't raise much suspicion. Nor should they. But red flags should snap up when several apparently healthy babies die in one family. "Two SIDS deaths is improbable," observes Di Maio. "But three is impossible." Another sign of possible foul play: repeated bids for medical attention for the children before they die. "Often there's a long medical record of these babies being brought barely breathing to hospitals by the parent who says they...
School officials insist that the racial data are just one small element in a comprehensive plan to help Cincinnati teachers deal with discipline problems. "It is a time-honored method of enforcing civil rights laws to keep statistics," says William Taylor, another attorney for the plaintiffs. "There is no reason to believe that the information will be misused." Brandt says "an administrator needs good info." He has a point. Even assuming that teachers are justified in sending twice as many blacks as whites to the assistant principal -- nationwide, black students are disciplined in disproportionate numbers -- what about the teacher...
...ways of solving the problem, TIME asked its mills to substitute a different bleaching process that does not produce any detectable levels of dioxin. Most of the paper in this magazine is now produced that way. We have asked our other suppliers to convert to this safer bleaching method. They are in the process of doing so. Says Refkin: "These issues are extremely important to us. We care about our impact on the environment...
...such desperate straits, Engler's radical solution became attractive. After the vote last week, Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, declared, "One thing is clear. A more equitable and stable method of financing public schools must be found, and Michigan has clearly taken a bold step in that direction." Officials in Rhode Island, South Carolina, New Hampshire and Vermont all asked for detailed projections of Engler's plan...