Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson is, in fact, Radcliffe's first postfeminist president. A precise thinker, the scientist-administrator would certainly not be comfortable with such an ill-defined term--but neither is she with describing herself as a feminist...
Another interesting selection is Diane Ravitch, the incisive conservative thinker and education historian from Columbia University who has defended pluralism on college campuses against the assault of censorious "political correctness." Ravitch is in charge of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement and also serves as counselor to Alexander...
...them -- must have an instinctive feel for the editorial purpose of the magazine and for its role in the marketplace. That's why I'm so pleased to have Cleary Simpson join my publishing team. She knows this magazine inside and out, and she's an accomplished strategic thinker...
...main argument against the tests in the U.S. is that there is no necessary link between such exercises and better education. "You cannot test intellectual habits," argues Theodore Sizer, an educational-reform thinker based in Providence who heads the Coalition of Essential Schools. He feels it would be better to leave matters where they stand...
...very much an independent thinker," says Lawrence B. Lindsey, a special assistant to President Bush who did his graduate work with Feldstein at Harvard. "Even when you disagree with him, you know that he has good reasons for thinking the way he does...