Word: esteeming
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...already lost a substantial portion of the generation of kids under age 16," declares Hamburg, president of the Carnegie Corporation, a leading foundation in child- development research. "They're lost to drug abuse, crime and teen pregnancy, but also to more subtle corrosives like malnutrition, illiteracy and poor self-esteem...
...similar effort, Project ESTEEM--Earth Science Teachers Exploring Exemplary Materials--has done similar workshops in the earth sciences. ESTEEM has sent out agents who have instructed more than 3500 students in the last two years, according to the statement...
...effort to reverse the pattern of black failure has prompted educators like Smith to try many experiments -- Afrocentric curriculums, academic- achievement fairs and efforts to establish black all-male public schools that focus on building self-esteem. The reform movements seek to revive in black students the value system that prizes education as, among other things, a way out of poverty. "We dropped the ball," laments Trinette Chase, a Montgomery County, Md., mother. "Our generation failed to pass on the value of an education...
...seemingly at any price; Munro as a backslapping cheerleader with a bent toward the banal and the four-letter word (with a grand retirement package awaiting); McManus as a beleaguered figure striving to salvage a degree of authority over the company's magazines and some esteem from his staffers while Brack belittles them by insisting that "the marketplace," not editors and thinkers, "should dictate what a magazine should...
...thing straight. Gloria Steinem, the leading icon of American feminism, has not turned her back on the women's movement. Quite the contrary. She has come of age with a 377-page credo on the potency of self-esteem that is rooted in nearly three decades of social activism, embraces men and women with equal fervor, and neatly hooks into the national quest for the self. With her No. 1 best seller, Revolution from Within, she has vaulted back into the public fray. "Maybe I should have done this earlier in my life," she says candidly...