Word: program
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...apparent belief that it can and should act as the arbiter of our collective moral worth. In a letter to The Crimson (published on January 9, 1998), Richard V. Scali, executive officer of the Cambridge License Commission, defended his organization's position on the Cops-in-Shops program in part by describing the untrustworthiness of anyone currently between the ages of 17 and 37. "The Millennium Generation," Scali wrote, "are those people born after 1982 and who present themselves as law-abiding and morally sound. The Gen-Xers, born between 1961 and 1981, are without such character...
Education is the only way to break the poverty cycle in which such people are trapped. Many of them, however, would never go to school even if it were free--the opportunity cost in the short term of lost wages would be far too great. However, a program which linked education with employment could certainly succeed: kids go to work for multinational companies, work seven to eight hours a day and then study--at company expense with possible government or other donor subsidy--for another four or five hours in the factory where they work. Such a plan where...
...learned about the DFMC through her father, who works for the founders of the Claudia Adams Barr Program...
...soon as the UAC heard the concerns [of the ethnic organizations] they said, `Well, we can change it,'" said Macy H. Lenox, director of the visiting students program. "This is the first time we've heard anything [about this issue...
...Carnegie Foundation report's furtherrecommendations include the expansion ofinquiry-based learning for first-years. The reportlauds a Duke University program, which usesbig-name faculty in small discussiongroups--somewhat like the Freshman Seminar programat Harvard...