Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union--which now claims over 900 official members--is also organizing picketers to surround all classroom buildings on Tuesday during the work stoppage. Mamdani said that no University libraries would be picketed, however...
...movement for reform in America's schools has attracted increasing momentum through the 1960s, chiefly thanks to a number of writers like John Holt, Herbert Kohl, and George Dennison who have dramatized areas of inhumane and unthinking practice as well as various attempts at reform in the classroom. Now, "integrated day," "informal school," and "open classroom" have become as familiar as the jargon growing out of the work of John Dewey and the Progressive Movement. Unfortunately, the Progressives left behind little more in practice than jargon. Advocates of reform along the lines of informal schooling fear that without painstaking attention...
...what degree boarder issues of race, inequality, income distribution, and public finance will have to be faced before more fundamental change is realized. Schools Where Children Learn centers on what Featherstone, in an interview, called the "micro-issues" of reform, changes on the level of the school and classroom, although both his commentaries and the articles themselves have strong implications on a macro-level...
They dress in everything from miniskirts to medieval mantles. They do everything from classroom teaching to police work. One has a job with Cesar Chavez, another with Ralph Nader. There is a deputy attorney general and an Air Force lieutenant. They live in inner-city slums, in posh suburbs, on farms, even in the desert. They come singly, by the dozen and in battalions. They are the new American nuns who, in the decade since the Second Vatican Council first provided the inspiration, have streamed out of their centuries-old enclosures into the modern world...
...support of expanding the curricular role of Houses, Dean Epps has stated that he would like to see a freeing up of classroom space in the Houses, greater House accessibility to technical aids such as closed-circuit television and computer teletypes, and more "rigorously intimate" contact between undergraduates and Faculty, a contact he finds particularly lacking in the situation of non-honors students. Changes in students' life styles in the Houses may have discouraged Faculty contact since the late 1950's, according to Epps. He sees a strong need to reemphasize the "intellectual and academic character of the Houses...