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...behind whites and Asians in basic cognitive skills," she says. Admitting minorities with lower scores "lets these schools off the hook." That is why even such anti-affirmative-action crusaders as Ward Connerly, the University of California regent who led the Proposition 209 campaign, are calling for "outreach": targeted efforts to help minority high school students perform better. "I am in favor of things that will reach out to those families who have never had anyone go to the University of California or go to college," he told a TIME town meeting last week in Sacramento. The University of California...
...small student group or a regional group, it makes it really impossible for those groups to fully participate," she said. "It's not a matter of having one person there; it's a matter of having a team there to facilitate freshman outreach...
Abrams' conclusion that Jews should unite with Evangelical Christians to chip at the wall between church and state seems as contestable as Dershowitz's pro-secularism. But the issue of whether to respond to intermarriage by widening "outreach" to Gentiles or narrowing more closely on faith fuels a simmering debate within Judaism's major branches. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the pre-eminent voice of America's liberal Reform movement, detects "a degree of [religious] involvement that far transcends anything we've seen before." Yet it was Reform that in 1983 felt it necessary to assert that Jewish lineage, which traditionally passes...
Such poisoned words obscure the fact that there is an underutilized option offensive to none of the parties: improved education. A group called the National Jewish Outreach Program has tutored more than 100,000 marginally Jewish adults. But the best hope may lie in serving youth. The Orthodox have always had an extensive system of Yeshiva day schools; Reform and Conservative are expanding their smaller networks. Sprinkled around the country are high schools sponsored by members of all three branches. It is intriguing to imagine what would happen if more sprang up: instead of saddening her parents by arriving...
...addition to its outreach to the international community, the program has expanded its web to touch most of the University's professional schools, using a cross-disciplinary approach that mixes the teaching of ethics with professional training...