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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, January 13, 1992                   TAG: 9201130222
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-8   EDITION: METRO 
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EDUCATION PROBLEM ALL TOO EVIDENT

IN A COMMENTARY by Richard Lodish on Jan. 8, Christopher Cross, former assistant secretary of education, is quoted as having said in an article titled "Student effort: The key to higher standards" that "educators have been loathe to endorse strategies that require hard work from students as a condition for learning."

Tut, Mr. Cross or Mr. Lodish, or whoever confused the words "loath" and "loathe." Is this not a perfect example of the educational problems the article was attempting to point out? PAUL F. ZWEIFEL BLACKSBURG

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