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Consequently, there is often more art than science to important policy decisions, and the twentieth century policy maker still looks more like Aristotle than he does like Newton. The policy maker has come personal theory of how people behave in general, and from that he deduces how people will behave under certain particular circumstances...
...teaching materials and gives the teacher a more difficult task-to know just when the child is ready for his next stage of development. The movement is growing so rapidly that few teachers are prepared for it-and even fewer parents. Says Roland Barth, an elementary school principal in Newton, Mass.: "Most parents view open classrooms as a risky, untried experiment with their children's lives-a gamble best not taken." In a new book, Open Education and the American School, he warns that as the new system is now being applied, children are too often taught such subjects...
After the Civil War, the U.S. government sent a treaty commission to Fort Laramie in the Dakota Territory, now Wyoming. The commission was headed by Newton Edmunds, governor of the Territory, well-known for his ability to swindle the Indians...
...northern Alabama in recent years. Sinkholes often occur when the roofs of underground limestone caverns suddenly collapse. Government scientists are not yet sure what is causing the rash of sinkholes in Alabama (at least 1,000 in Shelby County alone in the past 15 years). But Hydrologist John G. Newton thinks that they may be the result of a natural-or man-induced-lowering of the water table. That would not only remove buoyant support from the subsurface clay above the caverns, but would also cause additional structural damage to the cavern roof by increasing the downward velocity of fresh...
While Robert Kiely lectures on novels at Harvard, Jana Moravkova Kiely (M.A. in Biology, '59) teaches genetics and introductory biology across the Charles at Newton College. The Mastership goes officially to Mr. Kiely alone, and Mrs. Kiely will continue to teach, but she plans to take a large part in over-seeing the House. "We want to do it together," he says...