Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...credit, Harvard has elected a woman to its previously all-male Corporation, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has formed a special committee to review faculty hiring practices and the College did provide $500 this week for Safestreets, a night escort system. But this slight bit of progress came only after the vehement agitation on the part of students--from the bottom up, if you will...
...interest in catastrophe," admits Milwaukee Journal editor Sig Gissler. The most realistic changes that can be hoped for, agreed the journalists, are slight improvements in tone and treatment. Said Newsday columnist Sydney Schanberg: "If we see only five seconds instead of 30 seconds of ghoulish film, we've made progress...
...news: few can apply that knowledge in ways that would help them excel in college, get a job or even perform the necessary tasks of daily life. "We have a solid foundation of basic skills," says Archie Lapointe, executive director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (N.A.E.P.), which last week issued a far-ranging study on the subject. "But there is stagnation as far as high- order thinking skills are concerned...
...Without such changes, it says, U.S. graduates may soon be unable to compete with those from other countries for the world economy's increasingly complex jobs. "Recent improvements represent a significant national accomplishment," says Gregory Anrig, president of the Educational Testing Service, which administered the study for N.A.E.P. "But progress falls short of what the times require. Much more progress is needed for the economic development of our nation and the intellectual well-being of the next generation...
Even that, however, marks some progress: at times last week it seemed as if the trial would never start at all. It had already been delayed for five months beyond its first tentative date by the endless dispute about secret documents. Finally an agreement permitted the selection of jurors. Then, just as the last jurors were being chosen, the Justice Department moved in with yet another objection...