Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While seniority plans have been considered somewhat immune from affirmative action measures, the Birmingham program now under attack is a typical remedial hiring program. Although the plan does include the use of quotas--the most extreme and most controversial affirmative action method--those numerical goals have repeatedly been approved, and often mandated, by the courts. Typically, they are applied where less stringent measures have failed to bring about change...
...Verlag. In the book's forward Lang urges the reader to use The File's sources to develop new ways of thinking about social issues. The academic quarrels, personal affronts, progress of the Ladd-Lipset survey and illustrations of biased press coverage make The File an exciting, perhaps unique method of examining an issue. Ladd, the campaign's target, even sent along a congratulatory telegram praising the book as "a major literary achievement...
That is a pity, because while it is easy to quarrel with the method of the Minneapolis ban, it is hard to quarrel with the motive...
Students also complain that grade pressure cause by the recruiting process creates an unfavorable atmosphere for approaching the B-School's case method of studying...
...case study method of teaching is based on group cooperation. Excessive grade competition defeats the goals of the method," O'Conner said...