Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hard for me to swallow how far the Dartmouth program is behind Princeton after I've been here for six years," Cormier said. "You guys are covering one great basketball team and one great coach [Princeton Coach Pete Carril...
Turning to his campaign program, Pierce said the state's budget crisis must be the top priority for any governor who wants to restore legitimacy to state government. Citing a poll that shows that 40 percent of state residents would leave if they could move elsewhere, Pierce said Massachusetts is currently experiencing a "crisis of confidence...
What the Bushies' body-count mentality ignores is what almost everyone professionally involved with Head Start knows: the program's quality is falling, and will fall further if 180,000 slots are added without improving inadequate facilities, poor transportation and abysmal salaries. Teacher retention, especially, has become a megaproblem, for the simple reason that almost half of all Head Start instructors earn less than $10,000 a year; thus they are continually lured to public school jobs that average more than $28,000 a year...
...controversy surrounding national standards and student testing, the fact that the President embraced the notion at all was remarkable. "To superimpose some norms would be radical," says Chester Finn, chairman of the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (N.A.E.P.), a 20-year-old federal testing program. "To expand it to everyone would be revolutionary...
...Jong and playwrights Arthur Kopit, Marsha Norman and Peter Stone. Financial backers include Capital Cities/ABC, Columbia Artists Management and Jujamcyn, which owns five Broadway theaters. Investors have provided about a fourth of the first year's $10 million budget, with the balance projected to be earned in ticket sales, program advertising and merchandising...