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Charlotte Crabtree, an emeritus professor of education at UCLA and co- director of the National Standards project, answers that Cheney's by-the- numbers critique shows "a lack of understanding of what the standards are about." One aim of the guidelines is to promote "inclusive history" by acknowledging the achievements of Americans -- blacks, Native Americans and women, notably -- who were ignored or marginalized in textbooks of the past. Another goal was to "get away from memorizing mind-numbing names of people, which history students just hate...
...UCLA will issue a parallel guide to teaching world history. Disagreements over how to treat Western European civilization in relation to other cultures are said to have been particularly intense. In short, the conflict over National Standards may be only the first round in a long, bitter intellectual skirmish...
...those methods of obtaining recruits for psychiatric experiments are undergoing a radical change, one that may transform the way schizophrenia is studied in years to come. This summer the National Institutes of Health rebuked the University of California, Los Angeles for serious "deficiencies" in setting up schizophrenia experiments that UCLA runs at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Los Angeles. A UCLA experiment reported in TIME last year -- in which one patient suffered a severe psychotic breakdown and another committed suicide -- was formally sanctioned and is now said to be undergoing an ethics review by the American Psychological Association...
...different UCLA-VA experiments, all of which are federally funded and housed in the West Los Angeles center, are under investigation. In one, "Management Risk for Relapse in Schizophrenia," veterans were placed on lower than usual dosages of antipsychotic drugs. All lived away from hospital supervision and were said to be monitored weekly. However, the experiment was envisioned to follow patients with "continuing psychotic symptoms" and especially sought out those in "relative remission" with "a potential for demonstrating a relapse." In a letter to UCLA in April, the NIH's Office for Protection from Research Risk demanded verification that human...
...focus of the debate is "informed consent." How should consent documents be presented to protect the rights of the mentally ill? "People with schizophrenia have information-processing deficits. They often have trouble absorbing information," says Dr. Robert Liberman, head of UCLA's Clinical Research Center, who presides over all of the school's schizophrenia projects, including those under scrutiny at the VA in West Los Angeles. He contends that reforms that demand clear and more detailed risk information will create a chokehold of paperwork. Liberman argues that patients can be informed of risks in conversation, without resorting to intricate documents...