Word: polemicized
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Basically Herndon is in desperate agreement with John Holt, George Dennison, Jonathan Kozol, Edgar Friedenburg, Charles Silberman & Co. that U.S. schools are too foolishly over-administered to successfully nurture either reading and writing or the ability to cope humanely with the complex choices of modern life. But unlike most apocalyptic...
But the program hurt its message by overstating its case. Shots of the VIPs seemed to be selected to make them look foolish. The script, though generally well-done, was sometimes flawed by heavily underlining its points, trying too hard for irony or poignancy (after a firepower demonstration: "War is...
An overemphasis on phonics instruction, though, can make some children miss the meaning of the words they sound out. Recalling Rudolf Flesch's 1955 pro-phonics polemic, Why Johnny Can't Read, Harvard Education Professor Jeanne Chall, a phonics authority, quips that "soon I can expect to see...
Brustein is one of those respected old-line liberals who today occupy the right wing of the political spectrum in the American university. He is a man who was on the Left when it was hard to be on the Left, who put his career as a director on the...
Seaborg has used similar tactics to meet the emotional challenges of Gofman and Tamplin, who contend that the AEC's policies are nothing less than outright genocide. In response, Seaborg acknowledges the dangers of radiation, yet insists that the AEC's precautions have been more than adequate. Such...