Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prep school the youngster was the model over-achieving crown prince. He excelled both in the classroom and on the playing field. While trying to secure a starter's place on the football team, he played one quarter with a fractured arm. Eventually he became the team's captain and won letters in three other sports. But although he grew up affluent, Darman also felt the influence of his mother Eleanor, a liberal involved in medical social service. Later Darman mused that he "bumbled" into government work as a means of bridging his father's and mother's impulses...
...killed or wounded. Some of these shootings were committed by "ordinary" citizens; others could be tied to drug criminals, who continue to produce their own separate necrology, turning inner cities into so many Dodge Cities. Then there are the now familiar cases of children found carrying weapons to the classroom; only last week a New York City fifth-grader brought a sawed-off shotgun to school...
Clark's claims that he is suddenly interested in tolerating CLS viewpoints remind us of a very dirty campaigner's pledge to create a kinder, gentler nation. Rhetoric cannot hide the past. Clark's classroom antics and his qualifications as a corporate law expert should not obscure the fact that he was the wrong choice at the wrong time for the law school...
...example, Nitza Agrait '91, a planning committee member, said that one form of racism occurs at Harvard with the dearth of minority faculty members. Because teachers may bring racism into the classroom by displaying their implicit biases against one race, both students and professors must be aware of such inequalities, she said...
However, each program will also carry four 30-second ads, causing some educators to worry about the encroachment of commercialism on the classroom. "Do we want our young people to get the idea from school that buying fast food is as important as learning when Columbus discovered America?" asks Patricia Albjerg Graham, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Adds Bella Rosenberg, an official at the American Federation of Teachers: "By showing commercials, schools are implicitly endorsing the product." Others charge that principals are selling their students' souls for a pile of high- tech hardware. Says Peggy Charren...