Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experiences dealing with students' reactions to controversial subject matter closely parallel those of many other professors who teach in non-traditional disciplines. Interviews with instructors this week revealed that the teaching of sensitive issues in the college classroom-and the question of student input--are problems that do not lend themselves to a single solution...
President Bok and Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence have recently made public statements reaffirming the instructor's ultimate sovereignty in the classroom. Their defense of academic freedom--and the limited role administrators may play in the classroom--came in response to charges that a history professor made specially insensitive remarks in course lectures last semester...
Most Harvard students, faced with the inaccessibility of the senior faculty, either give up on intellectual life in the classroom or find a graduate student or junior professor who is both full of ideas and actually interested in helping them learn. For us, Allen Steinberg has been that person...
...Vice President talks about returning moral values to the classroom, but only recently has he advocated specific, contentious proposals like restoring prayer in school. "I wouldn't be surprised if Bush treated social issues exactly as Reagan learned to do," says a Bush aide. "Reagan paid them plenty of lip service but didn't do too much to actually promote them...
Piret calls the tutoring experience "a learning process for everybody." Like Clemons, she says she tries to talk a lot with the tutors so that they feel as if they are contributing something to the classroom...