Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They look like a football team doing their warm-up calisthenics. One--the hands go down, two--they move together, three--out to the sides, and four--back up to the top, over and over again. Fifteen people in a classroom imitating the motions of conductor Chen Liang-Sheng...
Case said that next year approximately 50 students will participate in the experimental program, which will give them the opportunity to apply the economic theory they learn in the classroom to "real-life" situations...
...philosopher so immersed in his studies that he often seemed to lose touch with life around him. At social gatherings, he would stand alone talking silently to himself, moving his lips and smiling-although, said a friend, if someone interrupted his reverie, "he immediately began a harangue." As a classroom lecturer, he would stutter and stammer for at least a quarter of an hour before hitting his oratorical stride. Contemporaries loved to talk about the night that he got out of bed absorbed in some theory and wandered 15 miles in his dressing gown before thinking to wonder where...
...about Wilder and they'll tell you he's the novelist who wrote The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Wilder is a man of incredible learning in many subjects (such as the dating of Cope de Vega's early works, or Palestrina's technique of counterpoint), a master of classroom teaching, and a former professor at the University of Chicago and Harvard. But mention his name to scholars and they'll dismiss him as a creative writer. He can't win; praised by some, condemned by others, he is overlooked by most...
...load of 30 45-min. periods a week, and was required to do a variety of other chores. Today the same teacher is responsible for 25 periods a week and cannot be asked to perform any extra functions. As they rise in the ranks, many teachers give up the classroom for administrative positions. More than a third of the 107,450 people who work for the Board of Education are classified as "nonpedagogical...