Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...system since 1970, told investigators how a mentally unstable teacher called him one Sunday and told him that she not only felt suicidal, but also that "she was worried that she may hurt someone's child." He resolved right then not to allow her back into the classroom but did not try to fire her. Rather, he arranged a transfer to another school--to its library, in order to reduce her contact with students. That was around 1988, he stated. Nearly a decade later, in his February 1996 deposition, he said, "I still carry her on my payroll." Eason declined...
Little changes can mean a lot. Each classroom has a nameplate with the educational background of the teacher. Kids with a grade-point average of 2.0 or better get T shirts and patches that designate their achievements. A special grant pays for eight college students to monitor 50 kids considered "at risk...
...them with a unique scheme: teachers in small clusters would be given 90 minutes a day of development time; $10,000 in "dream money" to spend on everything from books to software programs and from camping trips to birthday parties; plus access to an electronics bonanza of laptop computers, classroom phones, voice mail, television sets, vcrs, computer stations, scanners and laser-disc players...
...Mind Works offers a smooth and surprisingly pleasant ride over some pretty rugged intellectual terrain, it is because Pinker writes in the same breezy style that brightens his classroom lectures. He likes to quote Mae West ("Men like women with a past because they hope history will repeat itself") and Woody Allen ("I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics"), along with linguist Noam Chomsky, artificial-intelligence guru Marvin Minsky and, of course, Charles Darwin. Pinker has a showman's sense for knowing "when to hold his reader's attention with an illustration or a joke," observed...
...They let us into the classroom atmosphere. They didn't isoloate us, and let us be just like one of the kids. It was great," said Ashley A. T. Tongret '00, a returning volunteer with the program...