Word: classroom
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Herschbach will oversee human resources and information technology issues, particularly as they relate to the budget. Her charge also includes budgetary management of the residential facilities, including facilities maintenance and staffing issues. Herschbach will also oversee certain special projects, such as a study on the use of classroom space by the College...
...England can get a bad rap. Yes, there was a hurricane a couple of years ago. Yes, temperatures can reach the high nineties. Yes it can get very, very humid--almost stifling. But most evenings and mornings, the weather is pleasant. A fan will cool off a bedroom, classroom or office. If the heat gets too oppressive, there is an easy antidote--water...
...they, their families and their congregations have been subjected to harsh interrogation, lie-detector tests and harassment at their homes and jobs. In one instance, a 17-year-old female member of the Rev. Algie Jarrett's Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Bolivar, Tennessee, was taken out of a classroom by an FBI agent and questioned so roughly that she broke down in tears. Says Jarrett: "He tried to make her say something that wasn't true...
...sentence runs. Insists Suzanne Thompson, early-childhood coordinator for the district: "They have been going to Taco Bell since long before kindergarten. This connects to their prior learning." But Alex Molnar, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and author of a book on corporations in the classroom, argues that "the long-term impact is to undermine and trivialize the curriculum...
Even if the word "diversity" has been reduced to nothing more than a shell for liberal initiatives, the educational benefits of having people from different intellectual backgrounds in the same classroom cannot be denied. Having experienced first-hand the benefits of diversity, I understand the emphasis that educators place on it. But in our celebration of diversity--the sum total of those things that make us different from each other--we must not lose sight of the value of community. All of us came to this great University as individuals with unique backgrounds and talents. Four years of shared experiences...