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Smith said U.S. education is not doing the right thing because it does not link what is learned in the classroom with real-life experience...
Twenty small practice rooms line the hallways of the basement of Harvard's music building. In one, a student monotonously plays piano scales, while the sound of a soprano aria drifts through the walls. In an adjoining classroom, a professor discusses music theory with his students. A saxophone wails at the end of the hall...
...watched on 60 Minutes last month as he offered up potentially devastating inside information about the machinations of his former employer, tobacco giant Brown & Williamson. Then there is the somewhat antic teacher his high school students know and love. One day recently he was darting about the dingy science classroom at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky, like a gnome on triple espresso, questioning and wisecracking in his rapid-fire Bronx rasp as 30 ninth-grade advanced physical-science students went over results of field research. DuPont principal Beverly Keepers remembers walking in one time on Wigand, who holds...
...four years. If he didn't reinvigorate it then, you know, what did he expect to do now?" Perhaps she will be the one to institute many of the programs developed under Reeves' administration. For example, the Technology 2000 initiative, which seeks to place a computer in every classroom, must be vigorously pursued. And current talk about charter or magnet schools should also be followed up with serious consideration. Just as the school system evolved from a dual system of technical and scholastic education into the unified Rindge & Latin secondary school, so Cambridge's educational structure must again evolve...
...when at Christmas in 1962 my parents gave me a superb Hallicrafters world-band radio receiver that I might hear German away from my classroom, I was already primed to listen. For a rural junior-high school kid, the radio was a Christmas-day magic box, and once I strung copper wire from the house to a huge white pine far out in the swamp, I grasped that box's reach...