Word: programing
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After returning from political oblivion last August, he acquired a strong reputation for vigor and rectitude, appointing experts instead of political cronies to a number of difficult government jobs, launching an effective energy conservation program, implementing a tough anti-terrorist law and pushing an ambitious three-year economic program. Now, once again because of terrorism, he was fighting for his political life...
Altogether, 46 companies, state and local governments, federal agencies and universities have entered into cost-sharing arrangements with the Department of Energy for the demonstration of electric vehicles. DOE, which will dole out $40 million for its EV program this year, is aiming for 10,000 demonstrators by 1986. So far only 500 have been put on the road under the plan...
...Since the electrics use no gasoline, Detroit, to the extent its output includes EVs, will be able to turn out larger, less efficient-and thus more profitable-gasoline-powered cars. That was a clever political end run, yet no one is complaining. Says Paul Brown, who heads the EV program at DOE: "It was just good, practical politics...
...more important to make it easy for kids to reach professional level, or to have good teachers?" Pressure is also needed to ensure adequate funding for teacher training. As a typical example, at the University of Alabama last year total instructional cost for a student in a teacher-ed program was $648, in contrast to $2,304 for an engineering student...
...classic 1960s study titled The Miseducation of American Teachers, James D. Koerner, now program officer at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, called for the opening of new paths to careers in teaching. At present a state certificate is required for public school teachers, who earn it by completing practice teaching and specialized education courses (such as philosophy of education and educational psychology). According to Koerner there is little evidence that this program of study improves teacher performance. Koerner calls for more intellectually demanding but more flexible requirements to make the field more attractive to talented people who lack specialized teaching...