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...calls for drastic measures, and therefore, Joe Clark," says Los Angeles Principal George McKenna, who, like Clark, has been singled out for praise by Secretary Bennett. "The ultimate challenge will be whether schools whose students face these pathologies can in fact become more stable and academically successful," says Ernest Boyer, former U.S. Commissioner of Education and President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching...
...Carnegie Foundation's Boyer believes such federal action comes at the eleventh hour. "This nation cannot survive with any sense of strength or confidence if half our students in urban areas remain economically, socially and civically unprepared," he says. Public education is now on trial in America, and many educators feel that the decade ahead may be the last real chance for the nation's schools. That is, without doubt, the most urgent lesson that Principal Joe Clark can teach...
...PERHAPS the most comprehensive study of the state of the academic profession in recent years, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching last week called attention to the tendency of major universities to neglect teaching while unduly emphasizing research in tenure decisions. "Too often," foundation president Ernest L. Boyer wrote in the foreword to the 360-page report, "universities give the highest rewards to those faculty members who may not be committed to giving their best efforts to the students." Harvard undergraduates--in case those watching recent tenure decisions have been wondering--aren't the only people concerned that...
...These institutions are at the top of theprestige ladder and they are most likely to bewatched and emulated," Boyer said. "If theyneglect good teaching, other institutions arelikely to undervalue it as well...
...report says that the increasing use of lessqualified part-time instructors to teach in largecourses is a further sign of universities' neglectfor teaching. Such instructors, Boyer said in theforeword, "are rarely regarded as full members ofthe campus community and are not expected toassume responsibilities or enjoy rewardscommensurate with those of full-time academics...