Word: classroom
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...teach an accredited course on his controversial theories. In a statement delivered Monday, the administration said Shockley could not teach the course because the topic of genetics falls outside of his field. The statement also said that the course, as Shockley described it, seemed "polemical" and thus inappropriate for classroom instruction. "The level of objectivity of the proposed course is at least troubling," it concluded...
...airline hostesses. At Yale since 1964, an associate professor since 1968, Segal, 34, was up for tenure-which means that its possessor cannot be fired, except for flagrant wrongdoing. But the classics faculty turned thumbs down. Instead they appointed him senior lecturer, a post that carries fewer classroom responsibilities than a professorship. "It's sort of a middle ground," explained Department Chairman J.J. Pollitt...
...world with the same unclouded curiosity. Without romanticizing childhood, it is legitimate to maintain that the free expression of children's energies and perceptions is necessary for education, and that taking the insights of children seriously is crucial for the personal development of children and for improving their individual classroom settings as well as the larger educational structure...
...report voices student sentiment from two or three years ago," Scully said. "It is a romantic report, but it is anti-classical and unrealistic. Learning can be done in the classroom. I think students are looking for more structure in education...
Last Tuesday the organizers of the College Hall protest held a university-wide teach-in on various educational topics. It attracted between 100 and 200 students to a dozen workshops dealing with topics ranging from racism at the university to restructuring the classroom...