Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is more to turning a potentially dry subject matter into entertainment than just reeling off a series of classroom antics. So, what makes a professor an object of affection for students...
PUBLIC AND CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS. Fundamentalists over the past generation have come to believe that public schools are a major force in establishing secular humanism. The religious right leads in agitating to restore prayer to the classroom (a cause favored by 69% of Americans, according to Gallup) and in seeking to censor school libraries and textbooks. Discussion of abortion in a high school text is the cause of protest in towns like Oak Hills, Ohio. Under attack in Madison, W. Va., and Peoria, Ill., are books of sexual counsel, including Changing Bodies, Changing Lives and A Way of Love...
Despite his growing absenteeism, the president certainly has not relinquished control of Harvard at home. Perhaps one of his most characteristic positions, Bok holds that universities have a social responsibility to inculcate ethical standards as well as academic and practical principles in the classroom. If one had to point to Bok's primary impact on American education, it would almost certainly be his belief that Harvard academia should not be isolated from the modern world. While he often claims that Harvard's mission is education and education alone (a position shared with some who think scholarly work should remain separate...
Perhaps someone who will have more effect on your everyday classroom experience, Dean of Undergraduate Education Steven E. Ozment is new to his post, but, contrary to Spence, he has had no qualms about asserting himself from the start. As director of the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), which puts out the CUE course guide, he has called Harvard education lacking in many respects. He has claimed that professors don't have enough contact with students, a typical criticism but one not usually voiced by top administrators. He has also said that both students and professors don't have...
...high school boys are chewing or dipping. No less worrisome is the finding, in Texas, that 55% of young dippers started before age 13. Says an exasperated Ann Ballard, a high school teacher in Houston: "I'm tired of finding cups filled with brown spit littered about the classroom...