Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...husband was able to join her in California in December. Until the research is in to prove that inconveniences like that are what's deterring women from B school, admissions counselors aren't budging. They say the skills and real-life business experience older students bring to the classroom are invaluable...
...guess students were surprised that [for] someone who was as liberal as he was, he was as tough as he was in the classroom," Kaufman said...
...boys knew how interact around girls (or was it the other way around?). The body checks continued, but the girls stood by looking on with bewilderment and disgust. And if we had no idea how to talk to each other in the hallway, you can only imagine what classroom discussions were like. It took a good year or so before the boys and girls began to act "normal...
...Today, aggression seems to be the way of living," said Shankar, pointing to the example of the classroom, where the most outspoken students tend to receive the most attention. According to Shankar, this encouragement of aggression in turn leads young people to take pride instead of shame in crime...
...crime in the classroom is an epidemic, it's like tuberculosis--one we basically control, with a few flare-ups every once in a while that beat the inoculation. Overall, school violence is not going up. Just 10 of every 1,000 students were the victims of serious violent crime at school in 1996. And while that's 10 too many, more than twice that number (26) were victims off campus. After the shootings that occurred in the 1997-98 school year, many districts tightened security. It's having an effect, according to the National School Safety Center: there were...