Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that since Grove City's financial-aid program is the only part of the school affected by federal funds, it alone is subject to Government regulation. Writing for the majority, Justice Byron White found no evidence that Congress intended U.S. regulatory authority to "follow federally aided students from classroom to classroom." That, said Justice William Brennan in a lengthy dissent, was just what Congress intended...
...Pilot School, started in 1969 in conjunction with Harvard, provides a loose framework with which students can create their own educational programs. "The Pilot School is one of the few open-classroom programs started in the '60s that is still functioning," says Giroux...
...summer is not all care-free swimming through The Yard. "With one-third more classroom hours per week in one-third less time, summer students are notoriously busy," Pihl said...
...child to become the adult who gives them. And that usually requires a revolution in consciousness. We all know that the revolution doesn't occur simply because a person does the work necessary to get an advanced degree in a special subject. Your doctoral robe gets you into a classroom filled with curious faces, but won't make you feel like a teacher' it may only make you feel like a Macheth in stolen robes that hang loose upon him. Any book or program that purports to help teachers has to help the "usurper" grow into the robes...
...attitude towards the educational endeavor that had made that endeavor great and successful for generations. But despite all these factors, those who stayed in teaching during this period, or who were able to start--if they fought successfully against becoming demoralized--have continued to lead privileged lives in the classroom. There, while the content changes, the age-old structure of relationships changes little--or, as I have suggested, it improves, based on better models. The intrinsic rewards never change. The process (including such details as papers and exams) that enables teachers and students to see the foundations of the Temple...