Word: classroom
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...what we would like to believe, the urgency of the educational situation in our country is mind-boggling. According to a recent report released by the Department of Education, less than 20 percent of our nation's full-time public school teachers feel qualified to teach in a modern classroom. Only a minority of teachers surveyed claimed they felt "comfortable" using new technology, working with disabled students and implementing new curricula. These trends are deeply disturbing and clearly unacceptable...
...Georgene B. Herschbach, associate dean for finance and administration, will focus on technology projects and classroom space...
Sitting in her eighth grade classroom in the shadow of Mather Tower, Cheryl T. Haynes, a 24-year-old veteran teacher, can remember when teacher testing was not a controversial issue...
...ways to teach students math. Since then, he has profiled U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, written our initial story on Monica Lewinsky and landed on a missile cruiser off the coast of Bahrain to detail the American military buildup against Iraq. This week Ratnesar returns to the classroom for our cover story on homework. "Reporting on education is always intriguing," he says, "because while we seem able to reach a loose consensus on other social issues, people can't agree on the most basic questions about education, such as how much homework kids should receive." Of his own education history...
...elementary years, two to three hours at the secondary level. There's so much to be mastered that most students can't do it all in school. Practice is best done in the hours after school. Some projects need the reflective periods that can't be provided in the classroom. And of course it is valuable for youngsters to learn to work on their own, to monitor their own learning, to be able to use guidance and suggestions from parents and peers...