Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Verba points out that pure math and science classes often require special knowledge and abilities that the social science and humanities don't, putting extra pressure on a non-science concentrator who has to take a standard chemistry or physics course...
...There is a way in which social sciences and humanities are more accessible to scientists than science is to humanists and social scientists," Verba says. "I've been told by physicists that I'll never understand what they are talking about, and I accept that...
...opposite seems to be true in some cases as well. Though science courses are notoriously more difficult and graded more harshly, some humanities and social science concentrators do brave them...
...says, "you can be a science concentrator and pick up a rich humanities education, but it's harder to do the opposite. I know many students in social sciences or humanities who do serious sciences beyond the Core because they're interested...
...schools are not valid. Since public schools must provide education for all students, they have special burdens (costs in free market terminology) that private schools do not bear. For the voucher market to be truly competitive, the government would have to pay subsidies to public schools for the special social burden they alone must bear, and provide lead time to make use of this subsidy...