Word: classroom
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Faced with mounting evidence of the failure of efforts to pour information into students' minds, a number of educators and researchers would like to see more apprenticeship in the classroom. Says Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers: "Schools are not organized according to the way most people learn. We might be more successful if we structured learning in schools more like the way things are done in the real world -- with apprenticeship-type programs connecting abstract symbols to the solution of real problems...
...School students say they rarely enjoy such direct encouragement from McArthur. Faculty and students alike have acknowledged that external relations comprise a large portion of McArthur's responsibilities; and as a result, his realm is often the boardroom rather than the classroom...
...When Braucher Visiting Professor of Law Ian R. Macneil is accused of conveying "sexism" in the classroom by a March letter from the Women's Law Association, his acerbic response circulates throughout the Law School's faculty and students...
Respondents attacked one of the law professors reportedly under consideration for the deanship. "The most strident criticism focused on [the professor's] lack of sensitivity to students and on his perceived sexist attitude in the classroom," read the committee's report. Another candidate was called insensitive to minority concerns...
...panel, on "Classroom Sensitivity: The Experience of Teaching and Learning," and Watson's comments during it, appeared at the end of a New Republic article blasting AWARE week...