Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reading period always means a decrease in activities and, consequently, there are not big names visiting Harvard this week. If you want to escape classroom academics by going to an academicly oriented lecture, you have some choice...
Over the years, the Supreme Court has declared that states must allow school children to express political opinions, to have a hearing before being suspended and to be free of prayer in the classroom. But last week, the high court refused an opportunity to intrude further into local control over education. In a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled that beatings administered by school authorities are not prohibited by the Eighth Amendment's ban against cruel and unusual punishment-even when they result in serious injury...
...abortion he had performed, a jury decision that was later reversed. The new play, at Stamford, Conn.'s Hartman Theater Company, marks the debut of Mark Eichman, 27. He sticks fairly closely to the reported facts. As a result, Act I, at least, verges on a classroom dissertation on abortion...
...poems and Koch's highly readable account of how he coaxed his students along. Since most of them had worked as domestic or blue-collar workers and had little knowledge of poetry, Koch started with the same introductory techniques that he had tried in the children's classroom. He de-emphasized rhyme and meter, encouraged repetition of words and phrases ("a slight artificiality to teach them to put things together in a new way," says Koch). He always suggested themes, like growing old or silence or the color green. Assisted by Kate Farrell, a young poet and student...
Bailey praised the English system of training lawyers because it is a ten year program stressing first hand experience over the classroom...