Word: classroom
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Jackman says that as a professional working parent, it was a pleasant change to see teachers interested in her ideas for the classroom...
...Banneker school actively involves the parents in the whole process--teaching and learning," says Jackman, an academic adviser at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. "I wanted to be able to speak to another professional who would listen to my ideas about what could be done in the classroom...
...still be distributed through rich and poor districts in a fairly even fashion. A bit of saving grace comes from a $400 million increase in the Title I appropriation which is used to aid poor children academically. But the administration's F.D.R.-like insistence on a computer in every classroom (and the $500 million next year so allotted) reduces the overall productive capital that might otherwise aid poor schools buy the very desks on which the hypothetical computer technology is supposed to sit. Likewise, the doubled funding of charter schools does little to help sustain ordinary students in the decaying...
...Mondale and Dukakis campaigns were welcome intermissions from the classroom, in which she served as a foreign policy adviser and broadened her connections in the party. But there were three other critically important training outlets as well, whose imprint would become more apparent as she moved closer to the prize. The first was the Georgetown Leadership Seminar, an invention of Henry Kissinger's back when he was an ambitious young Harvard professor trying to make connections with up-and-comers around the world. Each summer about 75 government officials, lawyers, bankers, journalists and military officers from all over the world...
...professor wants only those students in his or her classroom who are in a position to benefit from the course and contribute to productive class discussion. They seek to exclude all those who are under-prepared and under-qualified. They understandably don't want dead wood floating in their educational sea. It is not the cruel truth that shopping period is often an exercise in exclusion and disappointment that needs to be challenged. It is the methods of exclusion, which seem to me almost arbitrary and whimsical, that need to be questioned...