Word: used
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech, Silber said the money collected by the insurance policies could be donated for whatever use student volunteers desired, Gonzalez said...
According to Jameson Marvin, Director of Collegium Musicum and of Choral Activities at Harvard University, St. Matthew's Passion represents the height of Baroque music and masterpieces. Marvin says that Bach makes use of all contemporary music forms, including the aria, ariosa, recitative and the accompanied and a cappeila choruses that were popular at the time...
Theodore Sizer, former dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, told the audience of 125 that the United States should use a "common sense" approach to outdo Japan in education...
...teach a person well unless you know that person well," he said. Sizer said the "centralization of education" in the U.S. stifles individuality in students. Specifically, he criticized the use of standardized testing and the rigidity of rules which strictly correlate the age of students with their grade level...
Students' use of drugs has devastated the American school system, Doyle said. But he added that when "drugs tend to rise, then social revulsion causes their use to decline...