Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Herschbach said she also hopes the College willdevelop an FAS Classroom Database to cope withspace conflicts...
American schools are already spending more than $5 billion this year on high-tech gadgets and training, and many educators think laptops rank among the most promising classroom gadgets. For one, they can be used by students in any class, at any time of day--a significant improvement, experts say, over the prevalent computer-lab model, where students spend an hour a week "learning computers" in a room full of desktops. Unlike clunky desktop machines, laptops are compact and portable, facilitating group work and field research. Knowing that all kids will have computers with them at home, teachers say, gives...
...where youngsters learn and play together in a park nestled a safe distance from the traffic of Mass. Ave. Their parents, of whatever belief or non-belief, make sandboxes and swingsets and help the small faculty show their kids how to read, count and share the space in the classroom and the churchyard...
...good citizens who value tolerance. I am also proud to say that on the average we are highly intelligent. Atheists have unusually high numbers in academia and science. This is why so many of the more outspoken atheists have joined to defend science and reason in the classroom from creationists, anti-science postmodernists and all those who would conveniently brush aside or suppress scientific findings that they find disagreeable...
...experience shopping for classes this semester. I was interested in a particular seminar, although I suspected that my preparation for the course might not quite be up to par. But in the hazy glow of shopping week, I decided to give it a try. I hiked over to the classroom, hidden deep within that strangely inaccessible ring of studies and offices in Widener Library, and pushed open the door. As I scanned the faces of the ten people in the room, I recognized one of them: my junior tutor. It was time to go home...