Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learning experience is largely a burden that students carry, not the professors," says Jensen, "which is not a bad rule." However, Jensen adds that for faculty, "it's easy to lay back and be protected form ignorance by the ethic in the classroom that you're not expected to provide the answers...
...sports was going to be extremely rewarding to blacks. As a black athlete, you had a special calling, and nothing else was on par with that. Not intellectual development, not personal development, nothing else. So teachers and parents winked at academic deficiencies and a lack of discipline in the classroom because the young man was on the basketball team or the football team. There was this strong notion that sports had the capability as an institution of raising the entire race. That's a hoax, the greatest hoax that has ever been perpetrated on any people in this society...
Although Harvard has one of the most extensive clinical studies programs in the nation, many other universities have programs designed to incorporate practical legal experience with theoretical classroom learning...
...they do not develop a sense of time that enables them to adapt well to school. "When they come to school, these children enter a world that was not created for them," says Norton, who teaches at the university's School of Social Service Administration. "Imagine yourself in a classroom with adults who speak your language, yet you are unable to interpret what they want you to do, even though you wish to please them." Not understanding the meaning of time, she asserts, is a handicap that may partly account for the poor academic performance of many inner-city children...
...unique study shows that inner-city youngsters often grow up in homes where there are few daily routines. The children do not develop the sense of time that is needed in a classroom environment...