Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doorstep to your parents' house, I do not want street people outside of Leverett House. No one would question your motives if you tried to remove a street person from outside your home or apartment building. Leverett is not just another Harvard building--it is not a classroom or a gym or an administrative facility--it is home to 450 students. I am one of those 450 and I demand that my home, for which Harvard is responsible, be made as safe for me as possible...
...work as a supplement to the classroom teaching going on in prison, helping them with homework assignments and work books," says Bryant. Prisoners come for help on a voluntary basis, and it is regarded as a privilege to see the tutors, says Bryant, who may work one-on-one or rotate among a few prisoners, depending upon how many people are there...
A.I.A. claims to have more than 200 anonymous student volunteers monitoring and reporting on classroom lectures at 160 colleges around the country. The purpose, says Executive Director Laszlo Csorba, 22, is to ensure "balance and a livelier classroom discussion." As it is, charges the A.I.A., some 10,000 Marxist professors are imposing their views on American students. But to academics like University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone, the A.I.A.'s work amounts to "ideological espionage." Frank Vandiver, president of Texas A&M, has warned, "One never knows who is being assaulted in this kind of spying. Nothing can ruin...
...last week Midge Decter, executive director of the conservative Committee for the Free World, described the organization's approach as "wrongheaded and harmful" and urged it to "shut down the operation before it goes any further." Writing in Contentions, her committee's bulletin, Decter argued that in the classroom, accuracy is not the issue. "There is no accurate way," she noted, "to teach the Federalist Papers . . . Bias is something that anyone with opinions can be accused of. How can a person be qualified to teach without opinions...
...long ago, for instance, child mortality rather than our contemporary dilemmas of how to keep kids quiet in the classroom and fair on the playground was the main problem. Consequently, children were taught differently. Death appeared often in rhymes and stories. "Ring Around the Rosy," for example, is about the Black Death, and "Hansel and Gretel" contains images of infanticide and immolation...