Word: reformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staff's good intentions are outdated. Federal education reform is an idea whose time has gone. Wary of the colossal failures of federal programs such as curriculum-tied grants, goals 2000 and outcome-based education schemes, states are renovating their own educational apparatuses...
...Radcliffe Public Policy Institute--created just five years ago--has already emerged as a leading voice for solving complex public policy challenges. The Institute recently released a study of welfare reform that received national attention...
...think the concept of testing incoming students for basic skills is an entirely legitimate format," said S. Paul Reville, chair of the Massachusetts Educational Reform Review Committee and a lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. "[However,] I think using that same criteria to remove teachers is completely foolhardy...
...Pope can certainly see none. In his homily before 100,000 people in St. Louis' Trans World Sports Dome, the pope spoke eloquently. "Modern society has the means of protecting itself, without definitively denying criminals the chance to reform," he said. The death penalty is "cruel and unnecessary," he added, "even in the case of someone who has done great evil...
Social Security reform has been a protracted game of chicken, but finally it was President Clinton who had to make the first move. For years, neither he nor congressional Republicans have wanted to be the first to offer a major reform package, since whoever did so would surely get hammered by the other side. But Clinton needed a bold idea in his State of the Union address to help divert attention from that little matter in the Senate...