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Although apprenticeship can be a highly effective tool, it requires greater personal involvement and a deeper understanding of the subject matter than most conventional teaching methods. To help make up for the shortage of professionals skilled in this technique, educators look to a new generation of computer-based teaching tools that work with students much the way a teacher does, walking them through incorrect answers to show where they went astray. The key to these new tools is the concept of apprenticeship. Says Lauren Resnick, past president of the 14,500-member American Educational Research Association: "Apprenticeship has the promise...
...Prensa has run exposes of government corruption and inefficiency, reported the existence of an underground prison for political detainees, and claimed that opponents of the regime have been executed and buried at night. To Sandinista charges that such stories lack substantiation and that she is a tool of the government's enemies, she replies, "If it weren't for La Prensa and the Chamorros, those boys who call themselves our comandantes would still be hiding in the mountains...
...ethics becoming a tool for character assassination? Pennsylvania Congressman William Gray, the leading candidate to replace Coelho, had to ask Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to investigate the source of an apparently unfounded rumor that the FBI was looking into whether he had a no-show employee on his payroll. Majority leader Tom Foley, the likely successor to Wright, was asked to assure a group of conservative Democrats that nothing in his background would embarrass them...
...technique called DNA fingerprinting has, since the mid-1980s, become an important tool for police and prosecutors. Matching a suspect's DNA, the genetic material found in most cells, with DNA found in blood or semen at the scene of a crime can provide seemingly indisputable evidence of guilt. But now DNA fingerprinting is itself on trial, and shadows of doubt are falling on detective work that once seemed virtually infallible. Says William Thompson, a professor of social ecology at the University of California at Irvine: "This technology has been steamrollered through the courts, and now it's beginning...
Another demand is for a free press, which is largely related to the drive against corruption. Investigative journalism is regarded in China as the foremost tool for rooting out corruption. Thus far, the government has confined journalists to relatively small cases, protecting upper-level party members. The value placed on a free press was underscored by one of the most astonishing aspects of the demonstrations. The ordinarily staid party organ, People's Daily, broke with long-standing practice and reported fully on the protests before Li announced a crackdown. Central China Television did so as well, with...