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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Westside was founded at the tail-end of the last major movement for educational change School reform is, in 1985, again an issue of concern to parents and politicians, but the emphasis is completely different. Where educational theorists in the 1960s sought: to tree the student from the bounds that allegedly shackled tree though in the public schools, today's reformers seek a return to what they think schools were in the Good Old Days places where dedicated and respected teachers rigorously taught the traditional disciplines to eager and obedient pupils From California Supt of Public Instruction Bill Hong...

Author: By Jess Brevin, | Title: A Really Liberal Education | 3/14/1985 | See Source »

...world by the tail, but I lost my soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Lyrics for the Devil's Music | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...miles in two minutes, practically turning upside down as it rolled to the right. The force of the fall ripped off the doors of the landing-gear compartment, and may have sent the 7-ft. by 4-ft. metal sheets tearing through the stabilizing wings at the aircraft's tail. The wild buffeting also bent part of the steering mechanism in the right wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diving From the Heavens | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...escapes from a film and is wandering around New Jersey in a pith helmet? And what of Gil Shepherd, the actor who created him (also played by Daniels, who is, to borrow one of Tom's favorite words, "fetching" in both roles). In two shakes of a trimotor's tail the West Coast crowd is on the scene, trying to hush things up. This of course puts Gil in place to rival Tom for Cecilia's affections. If fictive Tom reflects innocence in its purest form, Gil embodies it in the hilariously impure form of actor's ego. His conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Now Playing At the Jewel the Purple Rose of Cairo | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Right on the Bulldog's tail is 1-0 Columbia, which last weekend pulled the biggest shocker of them...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: Cagers Avoid Sanctions, Cancel Two Games | 1/23/1985 | See Source »

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