Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...schools: 4 x 4, or block, scheduling. Instead of students' rushing from one 50-minute period to another six times daily, work is divided into four periods of 85 minutes each; a year's worth of each subject is covered in a semester. Teachers see fewer students each term and get to know them better. A lecture, a discussion and a hands-on project can take place all in one period. "It's more interactive," says Rudy McDonald, 16, lounging in the sunny courtyard during lunch. "It's not just teachers telling you something and you spitting it back...
...charges by the National Organization for Women, the American Civil Liberties Union and others that New York City public schools violated boys' rights to equal access by setting up an all-girls school. "In general, we're opposed to single-sex classrooms because studies show that in the long term, where boys and girls are separated, more resources are devoted to the boys," says Stacey Karp, president of NOW in San Francisco. So far, no one has challenged Marina's program...
Inspired in part by an education summit that took place in May last year, 44 states are revising their standards, and five more are writing them for the first time (Iowa is the lone holdout). The term standards in this case refers to something quite specific: official, written guidelines that define what a state expects its public school students to know and be able to do. Some states have set standards for every grade; others measure students' progress over periods of several years...
...substance-abuse groups we have heard for years about the other "disease" of the alcoholic, the co-dependent spouse. I always found co-dependency a squishy, deprecating term that most spouses of recovering alcoholics never really understood. Thanks to Wright for deftly making clear the term differentiation of self, which embraces a wonderfully positive, teachable concept of what it means not to be co-dependent. JOHN TARTARO Plano, Texas...
...completely obscured by Monday's market dive was a bit of good economic news: The federal deficit has shrunk to $22.6 billion, the lowest since 1974. While Wall Street screamed, President Clinton was before a benign crowd at the Democratic Leadership Council, proudly bearing the news that uncomfortable first-term taxes and a chest-beating economy had driven the number down to a fraction of what even administration officials had predicted...