Word: skips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...borrow megabucks from Bill Cosby, Oprah Winfrey and Eddie Murphy to produce the movie, is doing whatever he can to promote his epic. Furthermore, I doubt that Malcolm X, who educated himself by reading hundreds of books during his years in prison, would want children to skip school to see the movie...
...Fiedler Skip-Stop Express vs. Keith "Diesel" Elias...
...even more fundamental change will be the almost complete breakdown of education's formal rigidity. It will be replaced by instruction tailored to the individual student. For example, instead of forcing most 10-year-olds to sit through 10 months of fifth grade while a few gifted ones skip forward and others fall back, all the children will learn at their own pace, taking several core courses and a wide variety of electives...
...Harvard undergraduates go into Memorial Hall at least once before they graduate. Even those who skip "Heroes" and avoid a cappella concerts have to head over to the University's most prominent example of Victorian architecture come registration time...
...movie director Spike Lee set off a small tabloid uproar not long ago when he suggested that young blacks should skip school if necessary to see his movie biography of Malcolm X when it opens this fall. A hideously wrong message, people said, undermining discipline and education. But Spike Lee understands a central truth: what is occurring today is a war of American myths, a struggle of contending stories. And pop culture, often television, is the arena in which it is being fought...