Word: methodizing
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...frogs. "I can't spare two weeks for that," says teacher Steffany LaBree. A U.S. history teacher doesn't assign research papers because they don't help him prepare students for state-mandated tests. The town's educators say they don't oppose accountability. Many of them prefer the method adopted by states such as Vermont, in which independent reviewers assess portfolios of student work. Many educators also oppose harsh consequences for schools that fail to meet state targets. But Mike Ward, state superintendent of public instruction, responds that "without consequences, there aren't assurances that the curriculum has been...
...Support for Sit-In,” (News, April 30), student support for a living wage for all Harvard workers “has dropped significantly in the last year.” Based on the details in the story, I draw some different conclusions. First, the survey method makes it impossible to know what students believed about a living wage last Sunday. And second, we cannot conclude that levels of support have changed...
...method of positioning yourself as you go into negotiations," he said. "It's not a call to arms against Harvard...
...staff's position on this issue. While the IOP may not be a "student group," scores of campus organizations seem toaccomplish their goals despite the handicap of selecting their leaders in open elections. The Crimson, for example, manages to put out a paperdaily even while engaging in the despised method of self-selection. Is democracy that much of a barrier to serving students effectively...
...this method of managing the fuming environmental lobby, Interior Secretary Gale Norton - who was undercutting Whitman on other channels before the Sunday shows even went off the air - plays the devil on Bush's right shoulder, and Whitman gets put on his left as the administration's own environmental underdog, a safely declawed, in-house John McCain. And when Dick Cheney thinks the time is right, bam! - having moved the entire debate 10 paces to the right, Bush strikes a deal between the extremist (Norton) and the moderate (Whitman) and calls it a benevolent compromise...