Word: set
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at Joe's ideal school, it's got a core curriculum where all children learn the same thing, and has a very set program for what everyone needs to learn," said Dick Brown, co-chair of Cambridge United for Education, a group dedicated to promoting excellence in the city's public schools...
...over 100 squatters illegally set up camp on Vieques beaches in Navy-controlled territory to protest the Navy's presence...
...role model of rigor and high expectations. He set a lofty standard and challenged students to do their best," said Lawrence Buell, Marquand professor of English and Heimert's longtime colleague...
...these students will leave Kansas for other areas of the world, and they will be unprepared to deal with many common current scientific ideas. Granted, not knowing the theory of evolution probably won't have a great effect on one's quality of life, but the precedent being set foreshadows an increasingly large split between education standards in the Midwest and the other regions of the country. As a result, students from the Midwest will be at a strong disadvantage in the job market and in life in general should the trend continue. And, in the real world, although Kansas...
...Clearly the students should have the benefits of a diverse set of perspectives from the faculty and the leadership of the faculty," he says...