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...stakes have risen, so has the pressure to perform--and the frustration among parents, students and educators. In the past year, protest-the-test groups have sprouted in at least 36 states. In Colorado, more than a thousand parents, teachers and students surrounded the state capitol in March and demanded that Governor Bill Owens take the test. (He too declined.) Parents in Louisiana, Indiana and California have gone a step further, filing lawsuits alleging that the tests violate their children's civil rights. In Illinois, 200 students claimed they flunked the test on purpose. Teachers are taking to the streets...
...back in 1959 that Richard Feynman, arguably the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, gave a talk titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," in which he suggested that it would one day be possible to build machines so tiny they would consist of just a few thousand atoms. (The term nanotechnology comes from nanometer, or a billionth of a meter; a typical virus is about 100 nanometers across...
...weeks following Dartmouth's announcement, a thousand students marched on Wright's personal home to protest the change and alumni groups came out in opposition to it. A poll conducted by the Dartmouth, the campus' student newspaper, found that 83 percent of students supported single-sex Greek organizations...
...study is released showing that despite high inflation and rising unemployment, the Harvard Business School class of 1974 has had little difficulty in finding high paying jobs. 4 - Seven thousand protesters march down Broadway in South Boston and public school attendance drops by over 50 percent on the first day of mandatory busing for black students. 20 - Six Harvard University police officers are assaulted outside Harvard Stadium following disturbances during the Harvard-Cornell football game. Harvard won the game, 39-26. 28 - Harvard University Dining Services begins to check student IDs in dining halls...
Historians in a rush may be guilty of both the journalist's errors and the utopian's projections. I have been rereading Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s "A Thousand Days," which comprises more than a thousand pages about the Kennedy White House, written in the year after JFK's assassination. In his grief, Schlesinger portrayed Kennedy as saint and martyr: "He was a Harvard man, a naval hero, an Irishman, a politician, a bon vivant, a man of unusual intelligence, charm, wit and ambition, 'debonair and brilliant and brave,' but his deeper meaning was still in process of crystallization." In recent...