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...compelling districts to find new ways to boost academic performance. Although amplification systems have long been used to help hearing-impaired students, recent research has shown that enhanced audio benefits all students by helping a teacher's voice get through loud and clear, even at the back of the classroom...
...Flexer's work, the state has required since 2003 that districts using state funds to build or renovate schools include sound amplification in their construction plans. Districts in other states are beginning to get on board. Last year Audio Enhancement of Bluffdale, Utah, the leading U.S. vendor of classroom sound systems, sold 15,000 of them, up from 7,000 in 2002. Typical cost per classroom: $1,500. Reno, Nev., has added the devices to 52 schools over the past two years, and Palm Beach County, Fla., is using a federal grant to pay for systems in 27 poorly performing...
...I.J.T. Members are expected to live morally and to abide by the Koran's injunction to spread good and suppress evil. For many, that involves adopting an austere lifestyle. Members meet for regular study sessions and must attend all-night prayer meetings at least once a month. Outside the classroom, complete segregation of the genders is strictly observed. When asked, many members are critical of the U.S. and its policies toward the Muslim world; although the group has no ties to terrorism, it's likely that some members sympathize with al-Qaeda...
...civics courses as part of the Core. Texas is the only state in the country that mandates college graduates from public institutions complete six credit-hours in American Government to graduate, and as an instructor in this field, I can attest to the level of ignorance rampant in my classroom among freshmen and sophomores...
This is a situation that has all but evaporated at Harvard. Professors now believe that their duties end beyond the classroom. One professor I took a class with last semester offered office hours, but had them at 9 a.m., required an appointment to be made with a secretary, and then proceeded to hold them in a building that no one had heard of. Another required her students to ask firm questions to which she would give terse replies, making them so uncomfortable that few would return. Harvard College—in the best formulation I’ve heard?...