Word: tensioning
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...There is always this tension between giving students the freedom to take classes they find interesting and giving them this well-rounded education,” he said. “I think the sense is that wherever possible, we should give students the freedom...
Race is an unavoidable factor on most of L.A.'s school campuses, where such outbreaks have occurred occasionally in recent years - though rarely involving such numbers. There is ongoing debate about how much tension between the races plays a role. Activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable called for black and Latino students join in a "Unity Day" against violence, saying L.A. school officials had failed for too long to act to quell tensions between the groups. "That failure is a prescription for continuing disaster," Hutchinson said...
...fantastic thing, but there is a very high risk for a loss of quality,” she added. In Pakistan, AKDN originally focused on educating women in traditional areas. But not only was the economy in those areas not developed enough to utilize this labor force, but social tension resulted from the marrying of men to more educated women, Khan said. This experience led the organization to open schools for boys, she said. Khan also said that India’s rural, isolated communities demonstrated the need to “be sensitive?...
...promises to deal with this incident forthrightly. (After all, the Los Angeles riots began as a result of the trial of the police involved in the Rodney King beating.) "I am afraid if this arrest proves really shaky and nothing happens to these cops, that could really increase tension - summer is coming," Smith says. "But I think they're going to handle it the right...
...Barcelona-bound boatloads of very expensive water are a means to ease that tension a bit. "It's a provisional solution," admits Barcelona mayor Jordi Hereu. "But it makes me calmer about our chances for avoiding an emergency." Maybe so. But it also points out how much more money and political energy will have to be expended to manage the distribution of an increasingly scarce resource. And the difficulties keeping the population hydrated in a politically tranquil Mediterranean democracy like Spain augur poorly for the drier and more desperate regions of the world...