Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passed, in the Senate, a four-year extension of the Manpower Development and Training Act, which provides up to two years' on-the-job or classroom training for the unemployed who lack skills or education...
...building is completed in 1968, says Dr. Salley, "we plan to have freshmen deal with patients, learn to apply their basic knowledge before the end of their first year. They will continue to have basic science courses through all four years, so that clinic and classroom will always be meshed together...
They held that Richard J. Bernstein, 32-year-old associate professor of philosophy, had been passed over for tenure despite exceptionally "creative" classroom teaching. The Tenure Appointments Committee refused to discuss its decision, but there were hints that it was not impressed by his book (A Study of Some Aspects of Education in Israel), his manuscript on John Dewey, and three chapters of a projected book on pragmatic and analytic philosophy...
Evaluating classroom performance is complex, but a growing number of university administrators are insisting that it can-and must-be done. Ohio State's new dean of faculties, Dr. John C. Weaver, recently warned that the university must "seek attractive, indeed compelling, reward and recognition for good undergraduate teaching." This should become "every bit as important an element in the formulae for promotion and salary increases as research and publication." If not, he said, "we would do well to close the university's doors...
Mightn't administrators get a good line on teaching ability merely by attending a few lectures? Most professors consider this a form of snooping. William Fidler, general secretary of the American Association of University Professors, doubts that many teachers would stand for it. Such classroom monitoring, he says, "is a very ticklish problem." But many a layman, openly and constantly evaluated in his life's work, feels entitled to wonder...