Word: classroom
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...suggestion that Harvard would somehow lose its academic integrity and have to "forfeit control of what is taught in the classroom" by letting ROTC return to campus makes no sense. First of all, several prominent Ivy League institutions--such as Dartmouth, Princeton, and Pennsylvania--now have ROTC on campus, and few would claim that these schools have somehow become "militarized" and lost their academic credibility. Moreover, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences would never let ROTC "control an academic department." If the Pentagon insists on making such demands, the faculty will simply vote to keep it off campus...
...current crop of children's magazines feature the literary firepower of their forebears. But what they lack in name recognition they make up for in diversity. Nearly half, including Weekly Reader, Junior Scholastic and Science Weekly, are designed as teaching aids for the classroom. Outside school, magazines such as the venerable Boys' Life, Highlights for Children and the new U.S. Kids offer a combination of fiction and nonfiction stories, puzzles and contests. Then there is the fast-growing crop of special-interest magazines, including Cobblestone (history), Faces (anthropology), Odyssey (space exploration and astronomy), Cricket (fiction), Merlyn's Pen (student fiction...
Still, critics argue that children should not be exposed to sales pitches, especially in the classroom. "We don't want to bring up children to believe that what corporations think is right," says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television, based in Cambridge, Mass...
Doyle said in an interview after the forum that a more effective education system would include parental choice of schools, government incentives for schools to make improvements and a commitment to "consciously teaching values" in the classroom...
Departments with small percentages of women concentrators, including the physical sciences, should follow the lead of the Government Department in conducting studies to determine why women stay away. They must address the gender imbalance with more women professors, enhanced course offerings and greater classroom sensitivity...