Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...policy that, just as we would never advise an instructor what to allow to be said in the classroom, we will not moderate the HyperNews lists," he says...
...eighth-graders in a classroom in New York City's Spanish Harlem can barely suppress their giggles. "You are sitting on a stalled, crowded bus," their teacher tells them. "Start up a conversation." Esther, petite and pony-tailed, begins. "Well, this bus is really crowded!" "Yeah," says Luis. "I can't wait to get outta here--I'm gonna suffocate." Pause. Esther: "Nice day, isn't it? Where are you going?" Luis: "To take my girlfriend to the movies." Esther: "I have a date too." Painful pause. Luis: "The bus is certainly...stopped." The class cracks...
Hard as it may be to believe, the forced dialogue in this classroom, part of a program called Life Skills Training, may help address a stinging question posed during the 1996 presidential campaign. When Bob Dole belabored Bill Clinton over a rise in youth drug use, the numbers supported him: a University of Michigan study shows that in 1995, 16% of eighth-graders had used marijuana and 2.6% cocaine. Figures for 12th-graders were 35% and 4%; all were significant jumps over 1991 rates (though far below rates in the late 1970s...
Already, the attics of Pierce and Cruft have been converted to offices, and lab and classroom space in these buildings are often inadequate. Twenty million dollars of the donation will go to fund a new computer science/engineering building. Named Maxwell Dworkin after the donators' mothers, this new building will cost a total of $26 million and will be about 80,000 square feet. It is tentatively scheduled to replace the present Aiken building...
...teenager. We complain about the leaders of the past and note how we would have handled things so much better. We complain because the world doesn't run the way think it should. We speak from the wisdom afforded by 20 years of purely classroom experience...