Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leading to Tiananmen Square. That sharp footage, skillfully edited and played repeatedly on state-run China Central Television, shows only aggressive "counterrevolutionary" demonstrators attacking impassive soldiers. Zooming in on individual faces in the crowd, the editors created televised WANTED posters, complete with telephone numbers for viewers to call to report on the students frozen on the screen...
...educational reforms that have focused on U.S. elementary and secondary schools over the past six years. That may soon change, however. This week the spotlight will be squarely on the middle grades, as more than 200 educators, lawmakers and health specialists gather in Washington to discuss an ambitious report sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Titled "Turning Points: Preparing American Youth for the 21st Century," it calls for a sweeping middle school overhaul aimed especially at helping "those at risk of being left behind." Among other things, the report recommends...
...Boosting academic performance through better health and fitness. Schools should ensure access to health-care and counseling programs, preferably through a "health coordinator" or on-site clinic. Specifically, the report calls on middle schools to provide family-planning information to young adolescents...
Besides the recommendations on sex counseling, perhaps the report's most controversial proposal is the elimination of tracking. While it is true that minority and at-risk students are often warehoused in low-level classes, a blanket insistence on cooperative learning may motivate parents of gifted children to abandon the public schools. "We need to be careful," says Stanford education professor Michael Kirst. "We certainly don't want to slow down kids on the fast track...
...warns Carnegie, the real choice is whether to fund health clinics, counseling and teacher training today or pay the far higher cost of dropouts, an ill-prepared work force and swelling welfare and prison rolls tomorrow. "The nation cannot afford to continue neglecting these youth," concludes the report. Lorraine Monroe, director of the Center for Minority Achievement at Manhattan's Bank Street College of Education, agrees. "We can't hold school the way we used to hold school," she says. "Some educators may say, 'I didn't sign on for that.' Well, that...