Word: reflective
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Skeptics are not so confident. They say schools cannot lead the way to reform, they can only reflect society, not shape it. Some of the harshest criticism comes from Uchitelskaya Gazeta, a pro-reform teachers' newspaper that regularly berates the State Committee for Public Education and the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. Those two mammoth bureaucracies oversee the nation's school system and train its 4 million teachers. Reformers believe that both block educators eager to try more innovative methods...
According to RCS Choral Director Beverly Taylor, Friday's performance centers around four short choral pieces, each of which will be performed by a different choral group. The pieces were chosen to reflect a diversity of choral styles and will include "Rennaisance, Romantic period, 20th century and light choral works," Taylor said. The Worcester Polytechnical Institute Women's Chorale, the Mt. Holyoke College Chamber Singers and the Winsor School Small Chorus will sing with RCS for the Friday performance...
Nearly every undergraduate has a horror story to tell about teaching fellows, but even if many of these stories are exaggerated, they do reflect problems in the way Harvard teaches...
...score really doesn't reflect Yale's ability," Bailliere said. "We were just tackling back well, getting ground balls and good checks. Keeping our intensity...
...variety of labels used to describe abortionrun the gamut from "reproductive freedom" to"murder." And the terms reflect the intensity ofemotions underlying the debate over legalabortion. Partisans of both sides have invoked andinterpreted the civil liberty and human rightsaspects of the issue, and both use the FirstAmendment in amici curiae, or "friends ofthe court" briefs on both sides...