Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview with The Crimson, KSG Dean Joseph S. Nye said he wanted to decrease the percentage of students admitted directly from college from 20 to 15 percent in an effort to make classroom discussions more pragmatic and less theoretical...
...peer into Pullman's classroom is to glimpse why math has once again become a battleground in America's education wars. This school year, nearly half of all American elementary students are expected to learn math the way children do at Fernangeles Elementary: not in neat rows of desks, repeating times tables and memorizing theorems, but through trial-and-error problem solving, often in groups with little direct instruction and almost always with a calculator nearby. Advocates call it "interactive" or "inventive" math and insist that it sets American schoolchildren on the way to becoming "mathematically powerful...
...story is the merest excuse for a rhapsody of textures: of the carpets, the wheat fields, the clouds, the streams in which the peasants dip their dyes. Color is almost a religion here. A charismatic teacher points out a classroom window to "the red of a poppy, the blue of God's heaven, the yellow of the sun that lights up the world," and these colors magically appear on his hands, as if he'd dipped them in a world still damp from Nature's first spectacular paint job. "Life is color!" he shouts, as exuberant as an Iranian Zorba...
...live, be out of things as much as possible, without acting like a crank. Daydreams are part of reality too. When your old man was caught gazing out a classroom window, the teacher would ask him, "Would you care to rejoin the group?" He always thought, "Not really...
...Information technology, which has brought with it Web sites, newsgroups and e-mail, has enhanced the learning environment outside of the classroom...