Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nineteen-eighty five saw Harvard take its first carefully planned steps towards computerization, but the steps were anything but bold. With characteristic caution, the University, despite dipping its feet into the waters, has yet to take the big plunge. If anything, 1985 is the year of the rational, the skeptical...
And in his annual report, Bok downplayed theories that computers influence the way a student treats a subject. He said the thought process remains essentially the same regardless of the medium through which material is processed. He also expressed doubt that the machines could ever intrude into certain areas, such...
And in his annual report, Bok downplayed theories that computers influence the way a student treats a subject. He said the thought process remains essentially the same regardless of the medium through which material is processed. He also expressed doubt that the machines could ever intrude into certain areas, such...
What kind of impression does all this make? On the one hand, that of some kind of confusion and uncertainty in Washington. The only way I can explain this is anxiety lest our initiatives should wreck the version of the Soviet Union being the "focus of evil" and the source...
Ultimately, cases like Ryan White's may become even more painful as they turn into politicized local issues. Says Stanford Law School Professor Robert Mnookin: "I'm concerned that school boards are acting out of fear and prejudice rather than rational concerns for the welfare of children."