Word: reformer
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...research career that spanned nearly 75 years--from his first scientific publication at age 10 to work still in progress when he died at 84--Piaget had developed several new fields of science: developmental psychology, cognitive theory and what came to be called genetic epistemology. Although not an educational reformer, he championed a way of thinking about children that provided the foundation for today's education-reform movements. It was a shift comparable to the displacement of stories of "noble savages" and "cannibals" by modern anthropology. One might say that Piaget was the first to take children's thinking seriously...
...Greenspan, who Time magazine once referred to as one of the world's most influential men, served on the Economic Policy Advisory Board of President Ronald Reagan and was chair of the National Commission on Social Security Reform from...
Greenspan, who Time magazine once referred to as one of the world's most influential men, served on the Economic Policy Advisory Board of President Ronald Reagan and was chair of the National Commission on Social Security Reform from...
Controversial meetings in the past, including those held to discuss the Vietnam war and Core reform, have drawn enough Faculty members to force the meeting to be held in alternate locations. But Fox says no such special preparations were made for the lastmeeting...
...What the IOC does next, however, will be the real determinant of its sincerity. Will the IOC be willing to make meaningful institutional changes? "Most committee members don't like the current reform idea of handing over the site selection process to a smaller group of officials," says Chua-Eoan. "Everyone wants to stay involved." A smaller group, however, could be more closely monitored and more systematically insulated from the current freelance operations of gift-giving and gift-taking. "Simply getting rid of a few people without changing the system will not accomplish much," says Chua-Eoan. "We need...