Word: classroom
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...part, Archer says he wants to put politics aside and learning back into the classroom. "I'm not sure if we're too late or right on time," he says. "But I plan to...do everything humanly possible to ensure that teachers have the textbooks they've requested and anything that needs to be replaced, repainted or repaired inside our schools before teachers and students return in September." These may seem modest initial goals. But perhaps, as in Chicago four years ago, any progress at all will be welcomed by Detroit's students and parents alike...
...minimum number of hours that professors at state universities must devote to teaching. Says U.C. Berkeley grad-student activist Ricardo Ochoa: "We do about 60% of the contact with undergraduates. Our working conditions are the undergraduates' learning conditions." For activists and apolitical students alike, getting professors into the classroom would be a radical cause indeed...
Considering the skill and effect that students such as LeBow can contribute to the classroom, why is teaching so belittled within the student culture's career appraisals...
...after watching LeBow in action, I am not fully convinced that classroom teaching cannot result in the same degree of wide-scale change. LeBow and the other PEN teachers, according to PEN director Robert F. Luo '00, each teach 12-15 students only one hour each week. Teaching English to immigrants or basic computer literacy to disadvantaged adults can improve the situations of a PEN student's entire family...
Given the incredible aptitude, energy and imagination that we can bring into the classroom, it is a real disservice to our communities that we retire from our budding teaching careers...