Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miller method worked? Researchers at Harvard's Center for Criminal Justice who have studied the new system offer a qualified yes. Overall juvenile recidivism rates are still about the same as in 1968-with one significant difference. For delinquents now in "open" experiments, recidivism is 50% less than for those in "secure" programs. Miller had banked on better results, but he claims he proved that "most kids do not have to be locked...
When things went wrong, Sutton says, his pals would sell him out to the cops. Yet he never changed the method of operation that put him at the mercy of accomplices. He learned a bit about philosophy and a lot about law in prison libraries, and enough about literature to have a firm opinion about the Shakespeare-Bacon controversy (Shakespeare all the way). But he seems to have had no new ideas about his own profession since he pulled his first...
Students of the method tend to talk about it like converts to Christ. "It changed my life," says Junior Blanche Jones. "I came here to study chemistry. Now I'm thinking about teaching Spanish." Explains Junior Annie McLane: "The whole thing is, go ahead, make mistakes, but at least you're speaking. It builds your confidence...
Last spring the Exxon Education Foundation deemed the Rassias method an "educational innovation of demonstrated merit," made a film of Rassias in action, and sent out word about it to 2,500 college presidents and deans. According to Rassias, some adaptation of his drills could be used for any kind of class. "Hell," says he, "we should be using this method to teach English to English-speaking people. It makes them better communicators in any language...
...crisscrossed the state to interrogate every one of the stricken Legionnaires and the families and friends of the deceased. Their quest: a common denominator, a set of experiences that would link all the victims, such as meals taken together, rooms in the same hotel, exposure to similar contamination. Their method: careful questioning and cross-referencing...