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Richard Gephardt displayed his mastery of the intricacies of the market crash in almost textbook fashion: he lectured a sleepy high school class in Sioux City, Iowa, on the global economy, complete with chalk diagrams. Gore jettisoned his standard text and went after the President with lines like "What crashed on Monday was not only the stock market but Reaganomics as well." Still, Bruce Babbitt remains the only Democrat to confront the deficit boldly, especially with his underdog challenge to middle-class entitlement programs...
...Fundamentalists may have made one enduring point. The Alabama case helped dramatize the extent to which many textbooks have been purged not merely of religious dogma but also of references to the role of religion in history. "The textbook manufacturers are going to be calling in consultants to see what they should be doing about this," predicted Law Professor Michael McConnell of the University of Chicago. "The consequence is going to be a more balanced approach." Deciding how to teach the historical facts of religion without promoting its tenets is a delicate task. Nonetheless, it is one that a nation...
...problems of these young people "are highly submerged" because they have been "taught not to exhibit emotions in public." Nidorf notes that youthful Indochinese are so conditioned to polite behavior that they hesitate to complain. She recalls the case of a Cambodian girl who was given the wrong textbook but said nothing. Because she was afraid to tell the teacher about the error, she suffered for months as she tried to keep up with the class. Indeed, the view of Asian Americans as passive and obedient is a stereotype that teachers tend to reinforce by not urging students to express...
...praised by a wide range of educators, scientists, civil libertarians and religious groups. But Bruce Fein of the conservative Heritage Foundation declared, "The decision is a total assault on efforts to get anything related to religious precepts into public schools." The opinion will help lift the pressures on textbook publishers that have been pushed by Fundamentalists to de-emphasize the theory of evolution...
Your idea of a perfect summer probably isn't spending eight weeks in a classroom with fluorescent lighting, studying calculus or writing essays. Who wants to take an organic chemistry textbook to the beach--or wake up to a grating alarm clock through the sultry months of July and August...