Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deal-Great Society doctrine that the best answer is the one that carries the biggest dollar sign. Nixon proposed no new comprehensive spending plans, no additional substantive programs. Instead, he declared that the U.S. must learn how to teach; Americans must conduct a "searching re-examination of our entire approach to learning...
...Nixon's approach is also vulnerable to attack. His new Commission on School Finance will doubtless report -in a year or so-that many urban and rural districts are starving for dollars and that local revenue resources are inadequate. For a new Administration to request such a study is one thing; Nixon's took 14 months to decide that it needed to think the whole thing over...
...arrive at a variety of judgments about our schools, about what works and what doesn't. But whatever else they need, they need money, and this is especially true of the schools in the inner city." The main danger in Nixon's essentially sound approach is that it could become a rationale for doing little until some mysteries of the education process are solved-if they ever...
Federal officials concede that law enforcement alone is not enough. "To talk only in terms of eliminating the illicit drug supply is, in my judgment, a shortsighted approach," says John Ingersoll, the BNDD director. "What we need is a concomitant long-range program that will eliminate the demand." To that end, the bureau sends out speakers and brochures to teachers, school administrators and community leaders. In the New York City school system, drug education now starts in the fourth grade...
...Another approach to the problem of heroin addiction is the methadone maintenance program. Pioneered in New York beginning in 1964 by Drs. Vincent Dole and Marie Nyswander, the program involves switching an addict from heroin, which can cost $50 or more a day on the black market, to methadone, a synthetic substitute that can be made available legally for about 150 for a day's dosage. Administered as part of a total rehabilitation program involving counseling and therapy, methadone eases heroin withdrawal and blocks heroin's euphoric effects. This enables an addict to function normally and hold...