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...There is going to be more beuracracy you haveto file the same report with a different level ofgovernment you are already filing with two otherlevels," Taylor said. "You aren't doing anythingdifferent except spending more money...
Instead of suggesting specific answers to these and other problems, the A.C.P. offers broad guidelines. Explains Ball: "One of the reasons we don't have solutions today is that we haven't got societal agreement on what kind of health system we need, want and can afford." Although the report does not say so explicitly, the Canadian health-care system, based on principles of accessibility, universality and public funding, is a model. The reason Canada was not mentioned, according to one official: its system is considered by some to be "socialized medicine," a buzz word that could torpedo the reform...
This naked display of racism is only one example of a general "breakdown in civility" on U.S. campuses. Such is the theme of a report that will be issued this week by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which surveyed American colleges for a year before compiling Campus Life: In Search of Community. Though the report's language is muted and scholarly, its message is loud and clear: the "idyllic vision" of college life "often masks disturbing realities," including racism, sexism, homophobia and anti- Semitism...
...Carnegie Report and others like it are searching hard for ways to rebuild the sense of community that should characterize the campus -- and society at large. The report prescribes a "Campus Compact" that universities must adopt if they are to restore peace to the ivory tower. The compact embraces principles of justice, openness and discipline that are meant to form the foundation of a "community of learning." But no seminar or speech or required reading will change overnight the attitudes embedded in a culture that children absorb while growing up. Nor will they easily break the cycle of hate...
EDUCATION: An alarming report examines how bigotry is tainting the hallowed halls of U.S. colleges and universities...