Word: voucherization
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...Swallow the bug! That's it, Magruderbugger, now you've become a material witness. Have Dean give you a voucher and get over to Walter Reed post haste. That bug is coming...
...Sociologist David Riesman on The Academic Revolution, which accused research-oriented American universities of smothering diversity in education. Out of one chapter of that book grew the questions that led to Inequality. While writing Inequality, Jencks also found time to develop for the Office of Economic Opportunity the controversial voucher system of school financing, which will be tested in a school district in San Jose, Calif., this year...
...journeys can be grim. TIME Correspondent Paul Ress recently took such a trip, organized by the London-based Park Lane Travel agency, from Paris to New York. His round-trip fare was $250 v. $504 for the lowest-priced comparable trip on a scheduled airline. He was issued a voucher that he was to present at the Park Lane offices in Manhattan when he wanted to return, a common practice among consolidators. The Paris-New York trip took a torturous 26 hours-partly because the flight left not from Paris but from Frankfurt, Germany, to which Ress was hauled...
...rejoice in the decision, for I feel that it could lead to significant change in the education establishment. I am hoping for a voucher system under which the schools must prove accountable for doing what they claim they are doing, namely educating young people, or else children will not at tend them...
There are other methods of removing the inequities in education: better funding for substandard schools, special programs, a student "voucher" system and traveling teaching teams. Yale's Bickel believes that imaginative programs can be devised to equalize educational standards, noting that the courts are insisting on busing partly because no other alternatives for bettering schools are available to them. Says Bickel: "The remedy for unequal education is a fluid concept. What is needed is for school districts to make the courts deal with a changed problem. I hope men of good-will will address the problem creatively...