Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much as we all hate to agree with anything Secretary of Education William Bennett says, he was correct this fall when he claimed that contact between teachers and students outside the classroom is essential aspect of education...
Neustadt doubts that such knowledge can be taught in the classroom...
...primary focus. Yet those who pay to be taught and educated accept their relegation to the realm of passive recipient. The theories also obscure what has become a central tenet at most educational institutions: the experience of living and functioning in a university environment equals or surpasses the classroom in educational importance. Many students are and the rest should be directly concerned with the University's major stands and policies, whether or not said policies are directly related to students...
...freshman year in office -- at least the way his critics saw it -- Secretary of Education William Bennett misbehaved like a classroom bully. He brashly backhanded many university students as beach bums who loafed on Government loans, blasted what he called the "failed path" of bilingual education, charged that rising college tuitions and cafeteria-style curriculums were a rip-off and assailed fat in congressional education budgets. Except for hearty support from President Reagan, whom Bennett strove mightily to please, most reaction from lawmakers and educators ranged from bemusement to cold rage. California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, chairman of the House Committee...
...black boycott or racial turmoil. In recent weeks a black-led movement has grown up favoring an end to the long "stayaway." Reason: many parents fear the boycott is permanently ^ crippling any hope for their children to receive a decent education. Among the groups urging a return to classroom normality: the United Democratic Front, the country's largest antiapartheid organization. A U.D.F. spokesman declared last week that ending the boycott would "help the struggle for a democratic education system in the long term...