Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of a vast vault cemented on all sides. The easy way was out through the glass doors, but the Vision of my Section Man's distressed Face led me on out of the depths to attempt that serious and arduous journey by which I might reach the Classroom and Truth. With downcast eyes and a penitent heart at trespassing the forbidden confines of Lamont, only the reassuring presence of my Classmate beside me drew...
...Sizer, Dean of the School of Education, will carry on a long-term cooperative program with the participating school systems, studying social and cultural differences as they affect learning. Hopefully new teaching methods, curriculum materials, and training programs will be developed and will be made part of actual classroom practice as quickly as possible...
...only exception is the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, which encourages--even requires--auditors to participate in classroom activities...
Inside, as in Greeley's other easily expandable new elementary schools, walls move to allow team teaching, small or large classes, special groupings within the classroom. The absence of windows prevents glare and helps preserve constant temperatures, and no one has yet complained of claustrophobia. Kathryn Moss, a teacher for 24 years, is enthusiastic. "I have the children to myself without window distractions," she says. "I'm convinced I'm going to teach better here because I can do so much more...
...change in the character and range of "academic life" has probably been its most significant form of expansion. No longer is it a field of scholarship and teaching closely confined to the library, lab, and college classroom. The scope of the academic scientist has expanded spectacularly. Many now direct extensive research groups in costly projects, advise government agencies, do consultant work for corporations at substantial fees, travel widely to professional meet-ahead of the faculty. We were reading avant-garde works. English literature courses stopped with the Victorians. Now the students can't be ahead. They are faced by extraordinary...