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...That's the new school" is a prideful remark that almost all Americans can make in showing off their communities. In thousands of cases, the shape, size and equipment of the new building owe everything to the little-known profession of school consulting. The best-known of the consultants is Nickolaus L. Engelhardt, 58, a nerveless, gruffly warm expert whose firm, the busiest in the nation, has helped 800 school boards mold the down-to-earth terms of education for millions of kids...
...cause of a great idea," he argues. "Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism." In terms of this philosophy, Moyers numbers among his heroes Disraeli, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and, not least, L.B.J.-"All that I am, I owe...
...Bronx elementary school in one of New York City's worst slum neighborhoods, Daisy has gained 18 months in reading skill after just nine months of study. Edward proudly volunteers to read to his class. Nicky has caught up to the reading level of his classmates. They owe their progress to Principal Julius Levine's unusual method of using music and dance to help kids learn to read...
...doing something." He believes that U.S. foreign policy should stress reliability, not experimentation. "The United States has too much mass and momentum to be a hummingbird, darting in and out of alluring blossoms to see what nectar can be had for the whims of the moment," he argues. "We owe it to ourselves as well as to the rest of the world to remain steady on course...
...professional who crosses an influential amateur. Villard tells of one career man, an irrepressible punster, who was hounded out of the service after his chief, a dairy tycoon, overheard him say mockingly: "All I have I owe to udders...