Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Project Head Start, which has put 2,000,000 three-to six-year-olds into the classroom in the past three years, comes as close to having universal approval as any of the dozens of federal programs, and has already "had a very major, very deep" effect, says Werner Hirsch, director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at U.C.L.A. But even Head Start money "goes down the sewer," notes Chicago Urbanologist Philip Hauser, if Head Start graduates are then put-as they usually are-into classrooms that are not prepared for them. Most job-training projects also receive...
...tempestuous have the students proved in their earliest reconfinement to the classroom that the present interval is being designated a transitional period of "struggle," preliminary to the full-scale resumption of school in the fall. For the time being, by Mao's edict, all students are expected to engage in factory work, farming and military affairs, and also consume heavy doses of the works of Mao; in those primary and secondary schools that are open, instruction is limited to one to two hours of morning classes, during which pupils read, chant, sing and dance the messages of Chairman...
Freedom to teach and freedom to learn are inseparable facets of academic freedom. The freedom to learn depends upon appropriate opportunities and conditions in the classroom, on the campus, and in the larger community. Students should exercise their freedom with responsibility...
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...professor in the classroom and in conference should encourage free discussion, inquiry, and expression. Student performance should be evaluated solely on an academic basis, not on opinions or conduct in matters unrelated to academic standards...