Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...written statement released yesterday, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence elaborated on his earlier comments that administrators have no right to infringe on the academic freedom of the classroom...
...hell camp" for salespeople and managers, the school requires students to sing a "sales crow" song -- so named because the singers are supposed to sound like cawing crows -- in a public place to break down their inhibitions. The curriculum includes memorizing rules of behavior, constant oral testing on classroom work, writing speeches and delivering them in stentorian tones, along with a 25-mile hike and other strenuous physical exercise...
...grade schoolers all across the country, the sky has begun to poke its way into the classroom. At Boston's Josiah Quincy School, Pat Keohane's first- graders play an animated game of hangman, filling in seven blanks that form the word cumulus. In Pittsburgh local Meteorologist Brian Sussman creates mini-planetariums for fifth-graders by piercing the shape of the Big Dipper on the bottom of plastic cups. In a fifth-grade classroom at the Hillside School in Needham, Mass., students think up celestial similes: trees become the "roots of the sky"; sunlight is "butter pouring through a hole...
...many students to design the opening stages of a course of study without the advantage of useful, informed faculty counsel. An atmosphere in which only the most agressive and persistent undergraduate is likely to experience the inspiration that is so often a result of faculty/student interaction outside the classroom seems inconsistent with Harvard's sense of mission and aspiration for its students...
Participants in the program agree that it's a trade-off and say they hope that they can contribute practical knowledge to class discussions by bringing their experience as practitioners into the classroom...