Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young think about here is their namorado, their boyfriend or girlfriend, and nobody does any schoolwork," a middle-aged parent lamented to me. "Sao Paulo is bad," he added, referring to the South American financial and industrial capital further to the south of the country, "but Rio is the worst place to go to school. Everybody goes to the beach after classes...
Last November, ETS officials and others heard speaker after speaker criticize standardized testing at the National Conference on Testing in Washington. Groups such as the Parent Teacher Association (PTA), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the National Education Association (NEA) all have complained of serious and potentially dangerous shortcomings of tests. Since then the siege on testing marked by the conference has become a prominent nationwide issue...
...than from Iran." Even the Giscard-Schmidt communiqué appeared indecisive to some. "It says to the Soviets, 'The next time you pull an Afghanistan you will be punished,' " complained Professor Alfred Grosser of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques. "That is the action of a weak parent...
Electra's brother Orestes (Gwilym) comes home as a stranger. After the famed "recognition" scene, Electra embraces him with incestuous ardor. Modern audiences can easily comprehend Freud's comment that he had merely systematized what the Greek poets had known all along: the slaying of the parent remains a ritual whose power to chill has lost nothing in 2,500 years...
Despite echoing corridors and almost empty classrooms, School Board President Catherine Rohter ordered the schools to remain open; otherwise, the cash-poor system would have been billed for unemployment compensation. But pleas by board of education officials for parent volunteers to help with staffing were mostly unheeded. The few students who went to school watched movies or gathered in lunchrooms for daylong study halls, supervised by administrators. C.T.U. President Robert Healey advised parents: "Make plans for the week. Have your child read a book...