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...panelists offered a variety of policy suggestions for the west. Meyer-Landrut said that given the growing nationalism and social discontent in East Germany, the most crucial task for the west was to provide aid to assuage East Germany's domestic troubles...
...have evidently absorbed the lessons of the newly fashionable self-esteem curriculum wherein kids are taught to feel good about themselves. Of course, it is not just educators who are convinced that feeling good is the key to success. The Governor of Maryland recently announced the formation of a task force on self-esteem, "a 23-member panel created on the theory," explains the Baltimore Sun, "that drug abuse, teen pregnancy, failure in school and most other social ills can be reduced by making people feel good about themselves." Judging by the international math test, such task forces...
...York State, a report from the Task Force on Minorities (A Curriculum of Inclusion) has launched a fierce attack on "Eurocentrism" in the schools. It begins, "African Americans, Asian Americans, Puerto Rican/Latinos and Native Americans have all been the victims of an intellectual and educational oppression that has characterized the culture and institutions of the United States and the European-American world for centuries." Result: "Terribly damaging" to the "psyche" of minority youth. Recommendation: Prepare all curricular materials "on the basis of multicultured contributions to the development of all aspects of our society...
...movement. Psychic healing is. The fixation on inclusionary curricula is based on the widespread assumption that the pathologies afflicting many minorities, from teen pregnancy to drug abuse to high dropout rates, come from a lack of self-esteem. Which, in turn, comes from their absorbing (as the New York task force puts it) "negative characterizations" of themselves in school books...
...task was not helped by the fact that the local authorities have been taking sides, supplying both Azerbaijanis and Armenians with weapons like pistols and Kalashnikov assault rifles. "The police say the weapons were stolen from them, but actually they handed the guns over," says Kupreyev. "There are more than enough supplies from Iran too. There have been reports that as many as 40,000 people crossed into Iran in a mass exodus ((on New Year's Eve)). The information is unconfirmed, but there certainly must be some truth in the reports that many people left ((towns all along...