writes in
U.S.
Aid to Taiwan: A Study of For- eign Aid, Self-Help, and Develop- ment (Praeger, 1966), the annual gain in GNP per dollar of U.S. aid was higher in Taiwan during the 1960s than in Korea, the Philippines, or Turkey. In Jacoby's view, Wash- ington "wisely" fostered local pri- vate enterprise and eschewed using
U.S.
aid as "leverage" to force politi-
cal reform in 1950-65. Perhaps no single action Chiang Kai-shek was more important than his American-financed "lan...
piling great rocks up in the sea. The tale is not all that fanciful. Some 60 million years ago, a massive earthquake rocked the East Asian shore, submerging the entire coastline. A second earthquake heaved a narrow chunk of sunken crust up through the waters. As the elements over millennia eroded the jagged landscape, the island spread out into its present shape.
"The earthquake and typhoon have played an important part in the formation of the [Taiwanese] character," W. G. God- dard,...
, the new study of the biological elements in social behavior, touches on human behavior, it causes a stir. Yet the "nature versus nurture" controversy goes back to Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species (1859) and his theory of natural selection. The man who wrote Sociobiology: The New Synthesis in 1975 is Harvard entomologist Edward 0.Wilson. To his surprise, he became the target of academic critics, notably Marxists who argued that sociobiology, in effect, preached "ge-...
always seem to be cast in the role of the tortoise. Despite the Founding Fathers' belief in popular education, it took more than a century to estab- lish a serious U.S. public school system. Along the way, educa- tors and politicians have quarreled over shifting notions of what school teachers are supposed to do: "Americanize" immigrants? Train future factory workers? Provide equal opportunity? To- day, the debate is over "quality," and disarray in the classroom. The troubles...
Diane Divolcy
As the 1970s draw to a close, everyone has something to say about "the schools ." Congressmen variously fret about why Johnny can't read, or why he must be bused 10 miles to school to achieve "racial balance," or why he is subjected to tests clearly biased in favor of those who can write "Standard English."
From the Washington bureaucracies and the tax-exempt education lobbies come studies documenting the vandalism, drug abuse, and violence in the schools,...
main hearing room of the House Education and Labor Committee in Washington-Rayburn 2175-has a 30-foot ceil- ing, a two-tiered mahogany rostrum seating 36 committee members, and gold carpet covering its auditorium-sized floor. But it is not so big that proceedings there cannot be dominated by Representative Carl Perkins (D-Ky.), with his quiet, slow voice, his whispered asides to his experienced staff, and his wis- dom in the ways of Congress. When the committee convenes to deliberate on the fate...