Word: supplemental
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University of Chicago Professor of Education Zalman Usiskin directs part of a reform project to attack failings that the studies point out. Among his proposed first steps: development of well-trained math specialists to supplement the typical all-purpose teacher in the early grades. Usiskin will study translations of a number of foreign texts. "We can use them for ideas," he says. Further, he would move geometry and algebra preparation down into the seventh grade, leaving the later years free for advanced studies, including statistics and computers. Says Travers: "The demands of a high-tech society require that we upgrade...
...supplement his $83,000 federal pension, O'Neill recently signed a contract to deliver six speeches a year at $20,000 each. He has a $1.5 million deal with Random House for his autobiography, which is due out this fall. He turned down invitations to join the boards of three major corporations. O'Neill has also spurned offers to appear in an American Express commercial and on Hollywood Squares, and to play a judge on Superior Court. Says he: "I am trying not to exploit the office of Speaker. If people are still interested in me in six months, then...
...president has done little or nothing to supplement his connection to students, faculty, staff and alumni. When students and faculty objected to several tenure denials and the promotion system in general this fall, Bok answered with a "no comment." When the Undergraduate Council, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, more than 20 other student groups and more than 1100 individual students requested an open meeting with the seven-man governing Corporation to discuss apartheid and divestment, Bok refused outright...
...what Bell wrote was a response to "student-reported teaching inadequacies," members of the Stanford law faculty scheduled a one-week lecture series designed to supplement his course and compensate for perceived deficiencies in its coverage. After members of the Stanford Black Law Students Association protested, charging that the lectures were "a hostile and racist response to the teaching style of Professor Bell," the series was cancelled...
...even resentful. Cowley, 88, complains about living long enough to become a resource like the free public library, "Hundreds of scholars then come into the field who are writing . dissertations, monographs, biographies -- all sorts of things -- and for each one they want to have a little reinforcement, a little supplement; they want to have a word straight from the horse's mouth. So they come to me and say, 'Well, you are the horse -- won't you please share your memories? Won't you please answer this little questionnaire of five single-spaced typed pages...