Word: classroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comforting fact for parents is that few school systems any longer use IQ tests as the sole basis for placing children in various ability groups. Teachers are being urged to use common sense judgments based on observation and on the child's classroom performance. Testing, as a measurement of progress and aptitude, will always have its uses, but the old myth about the omnipotent IQ is finally fading...
...ready to encourage the project. Skinner and Rosenkrans got the Presbyterian Synod of New York to approve a loose affiliation with the school, largely for the sake of fund raising. A 265-acre alfalfa field along Lake Cayuga was selected as the site, architects were hired to plan two classroom buildings and three dormitories. Tuition and board were pegged at $1,000 for each 14-week trimester, $600 for commuting students, and the officials set a goal of 1,000 students overall by 1971. Dr. W. Robert Bokelman, head of the business section of the U.S. Office of Education...
...Improvement depends basically, in our opinion, upon breaking down the narrow and isolating conceptions that confine education on all sides. Education is not simply an affair of the classroom, nor is the study of education merely a professional subject required of prospective teachers. Education is better conceived broadly as an organizing perspective from which all problems of culture and learning may be viewed. To place the issues of professional practice within such a context is to relate it to the whole life of the university. The special task of a university School of Education is to facilitate such relationship...
...guidelines for decision-making. The most important of these was A. Lawrence Lowell's President's Report 1916-17 in which the president distinguished between "matters that fall within and those that lie outside the professor's field of study." Lowell assumed that the right of freedom in the classroom and laboratory was universally acknowledged and understood at the time; his concern, which the pro-German activities of some Faculty members had provided, was with a professor's political action. In the report, Lowell affirmed the professor's right to the "personal liberty of a citizen" and defended a teacher...
TIME plus the tests and teaching aids make up a comprehensive and stimulating program designed to help bring today's world into sharper focus in the classroom. Teachers who wish additional information about the TIME Education Program may write: TIME Inc. Education Department, Radio City, P.O. Box 666, New York...