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...foolish and damaging, inexorably seeps under the doors and into the classrooms. For example, the sound idea that teachers should concentrate on whetting the interests of students and stirring creativity has been unsoundly used as an excuse to duck detailed schoolwork. Says Columbia's Teachers College Professor Diane Ravitch: "It is really putting things backward to say that if children feel good about themselves, then they will achieve. Instead, if children are learning and achieving, then they feel good about themselves." Ravitch believes U.S. education has suffered much from such pedagogic theories, and especially from the notion, which emerged...
...anything in American life stronger than vulgar materialism and mindless hedonism. Sad, in that there are few reasons to trust that in the struggle for energy, justice will prevail over selfish vested interest. But at least we'll all see ourselves for what we really are. Norman Ravitch Grenoble, France
...York's new Governor, Democrat Hugh L. Carey, brought in Richard Ravitch, a wealthy construction executive, to run the U.D.C. last month after Logue resigned. Carey last week sped a bill through the state legislature creating another public agency whose mission is to bail out the U.D.C. by buying mortgages on its uncompleted projects. The rescue effort will be costly: more than $392 million will be needed by the agency to complete the U.D.C. 's current projects...
...Richard Ravitch, 41, studied law at Yale before becoming president of his family's HRH Construction Corp., whose volume totaled $150 million last year. In addition to erecting such well-known Manhattan structures as the Whitney Museum and Gulf & Western Building, Ravitch has attacked slum housing by putting up low-rent skyscraper developments in Harlem and Lower Manhattan. A politically active liberal Democrat, he now is a director of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing and the Fair Campaign Practices Committee...
...capable of joining two hollow organs such as the stomach and small intestine, simultaneously cutting the necessary opening between them and stapling them together, in a 5-minute procedure that usually requires 20 minutes or more of scalpel work and stitching. One experimenter with the staplers, Dr. Mark Ravitch of the University of Chicago School of Medicine, has worked out a new way to prevent emboli (traveling blood clots) from passing into the lungs through the vena cava, the body's largest vein. He simply has the staples turned at right angles to form a filter which...