Word: survey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this may help explain why it is so hard for the people closest to children to detect that anything is really wrong. Studies show that parents consistently miss the signs of depression. In one survey by researchers at Ball State and Columbia universities, 57% of teens who had attempted suicide were found to be suffering from major depression. But only 13% of the parents of suicides believed their child was depressed...
...please, why should Adams survey other Houses in order to decide its own policies? Why shouldn't a House dedicated to originality and freedom of thought seek its own path? For, I assure you, the castrating of individuality and the destruction of the principle of toleration and coexistence are far more offensive than a few naked bodies...
Harvard placed 28th in the same Black Enterprise survey...
...administrators, though, say their programs work. Their evidence is anecdotal but remarkably uniform. Steinberg of Gaithersburg Middle School says that since he instituted character ed four years ago, test scores are up and suspensions are down. The Round Rock, Texas, school district started character education last year after a survey of student attitudes showed some alarming results: 71% of students admitted to telling a lie in the previous month, for example. Round Rock's Jollyville Elementary School reports a 40% drop in disciplinary referrals since the program's inception...
...business schools suffer from a dramatic gender gap, just the top tier. A survey of all accredited programs has women accounting for almost 40% of graduates. But in business, where who you studied with is as important as what you learned, the value of a name-brand diploma is particularly high. And the fact that women aren't getting them has the business world all worked up. "Women business leaders are tremendously important to our company. We market to moms," says Mary Kay Haben, an executive vice president at Kraft Foods. "We rely on the top business schools to help...