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Hall is on leave this fall, but will teach a course entitled "Liberalism and Orthodoxy, 1750-1890" in the spring. He was brought to Harvard with a grant from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Fund for Unitarian Universalist Studies, an endowment created last year by several Unitarian Universalist groups...
...Divinity School has led the nation in the graduate study of religion and gender since 1973, when it established the Women's Studies in Religion program. There, four or five senior scholars come to Harvard from around the world to teach and continue research," Buchanan said. research, said Buchanan...
...President called the nation's Governors together. Topping F.D.R.'s agenda was a search for ways to cope with the Depression. Bush sought to deal with a crisis whose long-range results could prove no less catastrophic for American power and prosperity: the failure of U.S. schools to teach the basic skills needed to keep Americans productive and competitive...
...students, who this year number 100, get jobs after graduation; most of the rest go on to college. California has had a similar program since 1983 that involves some 35,000 students and former dropouts, most of whom are linked to local hospitals and doctors' offices. The purpose: to teach them health-industry vocational skills. After 1,300 students dropped out of area high schools last year, Orlando launched a school-business compact. In return for a written pledge to stay in school, troubled youths ages 14 to 18 are paired with "mentors" from local firms who offer counseling...
Bailey's request signaled a new skirmish in a battle for the minds of Laytonville's young. The townspeople (most draw their living from logging) began to buy ads in the Laytonville Observer to protest Seuss. Said one: "To teach our children that harvesting redwood trees is bad is not the education we need." With the second ad, says School Superintendent Brian Buckley, "we knew we had a problem." Last week a school-district committee voted 6 to 1 to resist censorship and keep The Lorax on the required list. Next week the school board gets a whack...