Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good to notice the progress that's been made, for undergraduates to notice the history of women at Harvard," said Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, who will be a science panel member at the celebration...
...added that lack of bankruptcy laws, the persistence of monopolies and a concentration of industry in the hands of those close to Russia's leaders must be remedied by economic and political reforms before the country can progress...
...change for the sake of real progress, change for the sake of our faculty and students (i.e., decent offices and classrooms in the Barker Center) is, of course, necessary. So I've come to grips about the English Department's losing Warren House. Construction is ongoing now on that building, and workers are cleaning the bathroom of the fictional bloodstains from Amanda Cross (a.k.a. Carolyn Heilbrun)'s Death in a Tenured Position so that the Women Studies Program will soon have a new old space to call its own, smack dab on top of the scene of the original crime...
Others are questioning whether the country needs new national exams at all. A federally monitored examination already exists: the 28-year-old National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test that provides reliable state-by-state performance data--but not the scores of individual students. For that, many public schools use privately developed exams, such as the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and the Stanford Achievement Test. "American school kids take more than 100 million standardized tests each year," says Barrett. "We already know what schools and which children perform well or poorly." Asks Boston College professor George F. Madaus...
Wyatt and Cook belong to different generations, but they share attitudes that are on the rise today--across the U.S. and across its generations. To be sure, a century of medical progress has enabled Americans to live longer on average and enjoy greater health and prosperity. But even more significant, the traditional demarcation points between youth and age are starting to blur. Amid images of George Bush parachuting out of a plane at 72 and baby boomers blowing out the candles on their 50th-birthday cakes, a growing number of citizens (call them seniors at your own risk) are radically...