Word: classroom
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Worley blew his stack over an irritation familiar to many a classroom teacher -the seeming fondness of administrators for more and more paper work. Fox Lane teachers have always submitted outlines during the summer of what they plan to teach in the new year. Last year they also began filing achievement summaries at the end of each month, plus a plan for the next week. This year, when the teachers were ordered to tack on another week, Worley refused. His lessons, said he, were geared to the daily attitudes of his students. Submitting a detailed plan was "meaningless, a sham...
...Amherst men listed drawbacks aplenty, notably dullard school boards, low pay and low prestige. They emphasized a paradox created by crowded schools: U.S. teachers now look forward to school jobs that "will get them out of the classroom." Especially affected is the really good teacher-"a master, an expert, a torero"-who gets all the tough classes with no extra pay. Eventually, he grabs an administrative job to survive. "The whole question of improving U.S. education," said one teacher, "is tied up with this dichotomy...
...very impressed by the effort made here to help the students to develop their culture outside of the classroom," Duroselle commented. "Another difference is fostered by the competitive examinations which French students must pass at various stages in their education. Only a small percentage pass these exams and are allowed to continue in school. Therefore, the serious French student has to reject dancing, going to the moving pictures, and so on. There is more of a struggle to pass than in this country. Here the struggle takes place after the university years...
When he is not helping to ease that struggle, through classroom lectures and speeches to undergraduate organizations, Professor Duroselle retreats to his Widener study, where he is currently doing research on American foreign policy from Wilson to Roosevelt. His book, to be published next Spring, will serve as the introduction to a ten-year study of Franco-American relations. As director of the center for study of international relations, a branch of the Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques of the University of Paris, Duroselle is directing the research for this project...
...observers. A while back, Yalies were forced to wear ties during meals, a measure equivalent to giving waist coats to Hottentots. Then last year the students were put on probation after a bit of restlessness in the streets. Just two weeks ago, President A. Whitney Griswold returned to the classroom to teach a class and muffed the word "epistemology" (misdefined it, not misspelled it). Yale's friends all over cannot but ask themselves, "Is the old school slipping...