Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard campus first learned of Pogo's candidacy on May 8, 1952, when The Crimson announced the formation of a political movement to counter campus support for the impending presidential candidacies of General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson...
...Hampshire sporting a hairstyle that seemed 20 years old, his fingers itched to attack the mop. "How come you don't see any bald men among the top candidates?" asks the hair stylist. Good point. Baldie Ike made his mark in the military and then defeated Baldies Taft and Stevenson on his way to the White House. End of the baldie run.The barber almost saved Gerald Ford in the campaign of 1976. He had Ford dump the Vitalis, and then he trimmed the President closer on the sides and in the back, poufing up the thinning top. But by that...
...third of the three Rs, American students would seem to have turned around in recent years. Since 1980, standardized math test scores have been tilting upward. The best mathematicians among U.S. collegians have performed strongly. Says University of Michigan Psychologist Harold Stevenson: "Teachers, parents and children all think they are doing just fine...
...three new studies carried out by Stevenson and by University of Illinois Education Professor Kenneth Travers -- at least in comparison with other countries. U.S. school youngsters, the studies found, rank low among 20-odd nations in mathematical skills from Grades 1 through 12. Among the key points of the three studies, which were the focus of a symposium convened in Washington last week by the National Research Council...
...researchers suggest a daunting list of causes for such a poor showing. First, Americans tend to see math ability as innate. That, says Stevenson, gives youngsters a tailor-made excuse for not pushing hard, since the results are presumably preordained. Second, while U.S. schools tend to stress the broader creative skills of reading and writing, other countries, particularly in Asia, emphasize math burned in by persistent instruction and exercises...