Word: phenomenonal
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...schools to cheat on the tests--a frighteningly commonplace solution, according to David Berliner, a respected education scholar at Arizona State University and a co-author of a new book, Collateral Damage, that documents the cheating trend. The other solution is to make the state tests easier, a phenomenon known among educators as "the race to the bottom." Philadelphia's Vallas likes to joke that there are two paths to success for his city's schools: improve instruction for students "or give them the Illinois tests...
...Respectable Game Show was a phenomenon of the atomic-age early days of TV, when postwar America embraced the idea of meritocracy and trusted in the best and brightest to conquer space and whup the Russkies. What's My Line? and To Tell the Truth were urbane soirées, frequented by brainiacs and swells like publisher Bennett Cerf and arts advocate Kitty Carlisle, and quiz shows celebrated academics. Twenty-One scandalized the nation--and isn't it quaint to think of Americans being scandalized over a game show?--because people wanted to believe in intellectual Charles Van Doren...
...will Google's re-tooling make us even more reliant on the world's master of search? "Our goal is not just to get people to spend more time on Google; it's for them to be able to accomplish more with Google," Brin says of the search phenomenon he helped create in 1996 as a grad school research project. "We actually want them to get more tasks done faster...
...skin color of the people playing in the field was a factor in how the situation was handled. No matter how liberal people in this community may believe themselves to be, there is still a great amount of latent and unconscious racism present—even at Harvard. This phenomenon is acutely noticed by black students, many of whom have previously had negative experiences due to their race...
...incident as demonstrative of the fact that our professed level of open-mindedness may be a façade for a deeper, more complex reality. Indeed, many claim that this incident is merely the tip of the iceberg, a highly visible example of a more widespread and insidious phenomenon. Instead of trying to contest this viewpoint, students would best be served by using this example as a springboard for a greater conversation about our subconscious biases against certain groups of people and the lack of social cohesion on campus. These are topics that lie at the core of what...