Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many social workers and veterans groups are advocating a more modest approach. Rather than using technology to change the patient, they are changing the technology so the patient can use it. "The key words are access, independence and achievement," says Alan Brightman, director of Apple Computer's office of special education. "If you can only wrinkle your eyebrow, I've got a switch that will enable you to input data into a computer. And once you've got access to the machine, you've got access to the world...
...that Bennett's attacks lacked merit. After all, taking on the education establishment is not necessarily unenlightened or even anti-education, as many members of the National Education Association and the American Council on Education would have us believe. Like other special interest groups that work Congress over, the education lobby in Washington is highly entrenched and has its own vested interests--namely garnering more federal funds...
While agreeing that teachers should be paid more, school committee members said they cannot afford to provide the teachers with an 8 percent raise. Teachers' salaries already make up four-fifths of the school budget, they said, adding that the department must pay health insurance costs, special needs education costs, and automatic raises based on teachers' seniority and coursework...
...from the other dishes for contrast, but not enough of the dried tangerine peel comes through to lift it to the top of the class. It's a good serving and a good dish, but the best of these use a simpler sauce, with more red pepper to open special nasal passages that are then messaged by the citrus aroma...
...process begins with the statistical assessment of the nation's second- and third-graders, who are measured, weighed, timed and questioned. The resulting data is churned through a computer at the German College of Physical Culture in Leipzig, which determines whether a child might have a special aptitude for a certain sport. Says Renate Vogel, a former world champion G.D.R. swimmer and now deputy coach of the West German women's Olympic team: "No one with talent falls through the sieve...