Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...massacre, Gambian President Sir Dawda Jawara, the chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, which had organized the peacekeeping force, asked troops to intercede in the evacuation of Doe loyalists who had barricaded themselves inside the presidential mansion. Two weeks ago, ECOWAS representatives met in Ghana to select an interim government for Liberia, to be led by Amos Sawyer, a political scientist who in 1984 drafted the country's present constitution. Both Nimley and Johnson have indicated their willingness to turn power over to Sawyer once he has been installed in Monrovia...
...racial and ethnic * lines is making for livelier and more accurate instruction. California's public school system adopted new history and social-studies guidelines in 1987. Now, for example, students study feudalism as it occurred in Japan as well as in Europe. In Portland, Ore., elementary school teachers can select African-American examples for their history, science or music lessons from materials prepared by experts in each field. "America is, and has been from the beginning, a multicultural and multiracial society," says Charlotte Crabtree, director of the UCLA-based National Center for History in the Schools. "Kids need to understand...
Tallahassee will join a select group of cities in the world with magnetic laboratories, according to Jack Crow, director of the Florida consortium. Others include Moscow; Amsterdam; Grenoble, France, and cities in Poland and Japan...
According to the statement, the search committee will select a successor to President Derek C. Bok by February or March...
...that would give parents as much as a $2,500 tuition tax credit for each child in a private or religiously affiliated school. Already, students statewide in Minnesota as well as in such widely praised individual school districts as Cambridge, Mass., and New York City's East Harlem can select which public schools they will attend. These are grass- roots manifestations of a political idea that is rapidly gaining momentum and, if fully implemented, holds the potential to radically transform American public education...