December 2, 1992
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FRONT PAGE
As economists across the
country discuss how to reduce the massive
federal deficit, they might consider
soliciting the advice of a growing number
of young citizens whose daily lessons
focus to a surprising degree on
complex fiscal matters.
PAGE 18 - Commentary
In order to get an emergency teaching license in New York City 25
years ago, I had to take an education-methods course in which the
professor demonstrated how to pass out paper. At first I thought it was
a joke. Not being experienced in educationese, I was not aware that
professors of education did not kid around.
PAGE 28 - Commentary
For nearly a half century I have watched and participated as one
school reform effort after another soared briefly over the horizon and
then fell back to earth as awkwardly as a wounded sea gull. Little
residue remains of those endeavors except that deposited upon the
innovators and designers who conceived and profited from the idea.
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