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Measure of Merit. Shanker concedes that there are bad teachers in the system and insists that his union is as interested in improving standards as anyone else. "You walk into a classroom," he says, "and you see the same teacher and the same blackboard you saw 20 years ago." But this, he says, happens because teachers "have been castrated," and the way to improve them is to give them more power. "Teachers are no longer willing to be supervised by people who have less professional competence than they...
Cordier also lifted the suspensions of 42 students who participated in the second occupation of Hamilton Hall, the main classroom building on the campus, last May 21-22. The 30 who will attempt to register tomorrow were charged with more serious offenses and did not have their suspensions lifted...
Each year TIME'S Education Program for high school students and teachers grows in scope and popularity. More than 2.5 million students took the TIME Current Affairs Test last year, and more than 6,000 teachers in U.S. and Canadian schools now make use of TIME and its classroom aids: wall charts and maps, vocabulary lists and the weekly Teachers' Guide to TIME...
...Ascension (with bow tie firmly in place), McLain went on to Mt. Carmel High, Chicago's "Little Notre Dame." Father Ben Hogan, a former English teacher at Mt. Carmel, remembers Denny well: "He had a lot of trouble keeping his mouth shut." And he was no whiz in the classroom, although he managed to maintain a C average. Denny insists that he was really better than that. "I went to school like I pitch," he says. "I am as good as I want to be. I could study 20 minutes and pass a test. Or I could pass without studying...
...many black students insist that racism, however subtle exists at Harvard Summer School. According to Curry, "In the South, they don't like black people, and they'll tell you. Here, you see more subtle manifestations of racism. In the classroom, I'll say something, and they'll look back with an expression on the white person's face as if to say," Oh, he can talk!' And if I say something twice, they seem to say, Oh, he can think...