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...computers or ergonomically designed furniture will also be introduced into some Science Center classrooms and house labs. For example, the furniture in the Macintosh classroom in Science Center B-11c is completely...
...gone to Princeton Review, my parents would have spent I don't know how much money for me to sit in a classroom and fall asleep," says Taadhameka Kennedy, 14, of Mount Vernon, who is entering 10th grade at Brooklyn Technical High School this year...
...opposite the one from which I entered, was swarmed with determined sophomores before I could even reach it. At the next class (Phil. 168), I did not even get a seat. Craning my neck to hear over the crowd that had amassed by the door to the small Emerson classroom, I caught only bits of pieces of a lecture containing a number of references to "Kant" and "very difficult." As to securing a seat in Historical Studies B-61, "The Warren Court and The Pursuit of Justice," the cause was lost from the start. I joined the huddled masses waiting...
Finally, the Core office has an important duty to consider more carefully the relative popularity of classes and assign classroom locations accordingly. The Warren Court, for example, was overrun by students in 1996 and is again in 1998, both because of its enduring popularity and the Core's failing to put the class in Sanders Theatre, where it should...
...when the tiny (pop: 27,000) farm community, about 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles, decided to integrate its college-prep and "general" education students so that slow, average and accelerated learners would sit side by side. It is a bold experiment. Segregating students by ability--a vintage classroom organizational tool known as "tracking" or "ability grouping"--is practiced in at least 80% of U.S. high schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. But in Santa Paula, anger at the grouping system had smoldered for decades. "This is a small town that's been run the same...