Word: assessing
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Last week at the White House, on the fifth anniversary of A Nation at Risk, Secretary of Education William Bennett presented President Reagan with a sequel that is likely to be even more controversial. Titled American Education: Making It Work, the new report tries to assess what the reform movement has achieved during the past half decade. "There has been undeniable progress," proclaimed the Secretary. "Students have made modest gains." But, he concluded, "we are still at risk...
...trouble with the exhibition of the work of Donald Sultan, which opened at the Brooklyn Museum recently after a seven-month run in other American museums, is its date. It should have begun in 1997. Then there would be a larger oeuvre to assess, a longer career to discuss, and not just a bright reputation to inflect...
Child-development specialists point out that it is difficult to assess a small child's mental abilities, because they are constantly evolving. "It's simply a bad time to be testing," says David Elkind, professor of child study at Tufts University. A youngster who cannot recognize a square one week, he notes, may have mastered geometric shapes the next...
...Bureau has always been funded by the Law School, although it occasionally receives private donations. "We get a budget through the Law School and we assess the membership every year," Sulentic says. "We also have donations coming in." Last year's budget...
...Crimson's primary task is to gather news--not police student activists. If campus newspapers find out about a protest beforehand, they send reporters and then assess how significant it was. The editors then pass judgement on where to play the article or if they should publish it at all. Covering the news is a paper's responsibility. By ignoring any tip-offs, a paper would be abdicating its duty...