Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tremendously important when one is learning to teach to learn from, one's students," said Hughes-Hallet, who was lauded for her clear and effective classroom style in Math 20. "Please keep educating us, we need it very badly...
...tutor, Martha C. Abbruzzese '91, who had left Cambridge only half an hour earlier, returns his gaze in shock. There are no bars, no armed guards--at least not here in the Program Area at Deer Island prison. The inmate's grim face and worn clothing belie the classroom-like atmosphere. For a minute, murder almost seems possible...
That goal is not always easy to achieve. Many of the inmates in the medium-to-minimum security prison have had little formal education, and their brief classroom experiences have often left little mark. When asked by tutors what they want to work on, prisoners respond with words like "writing" and "fractions." Many prisoners do not even know what subjects like "fractions" are, because their school experiences included very little real learning...
...inner city, teachers sometimes forget what a real classroom is like. Learning falls to the back of the scene. Talking, throwing--education becomes a big food fight," says tutor Peter J. Freed '90, who attended an urban public high school in New Haven, Conn., and says he hopes to spend the summer tutoring in the Connecticut prison system. "For a lot of these people, they've never had a teacher interested in them as an individual rather than as someone who should shut...
...lack of scholarships is not the only hinderance coaches face when trying to recruit athletes. The student-athletes must be expected to perform in the classroom as well as on the court. To facilitate the determination of whether the student is a legitimate Ivy League student, an Academic Index (AI)--composed of class rank, Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and Achievement Test scores--has been devised for athletes. Anyone falling below the cutoff point of 161 may not be recruited by Ivy coaches...