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...premier educational institutions. In doing so, I’ve never understood why the public schools we run are so terrible,” Green says. “Where I come from, a million dollars is a lot of money. Losing sight of what happens in the individual classroom, what happens at the individual level, is something that happens to politicians. It’s just the nature of the beast. I think my background should help me keep that perspective.”David Slavitt, who waged his own long-shot campaign as a Republican candidate for state...
...West from both ends, first as his student years ago and now as co-instructor of the Tuesday evening graduate seminar. “He is very open to listening to people, and he’s invested in conversation as a crucial dimension of the experience in a classroom,” Glaude says. “Many times, when people reach a certain status they seem to always talk to or at people, but Cornel is invested in talking with people...
Let’s face it. The Bush backlash has had Harvard whipped. The spectrum of acceptable discourse has grown narrower and narrower. Many students have told me they feel the need to censor themselves in the classroom. Others won’t go to political events that interest them for fear their peers or employers will find them guilty by association...
...taught at the University from 1927 to 1973. Moore “just did not see eye to eye with Parsons on intellectual matters. I don’t think they got along very well,” Walder said. Moore was reclusive, sharp, and demanding in the classroom. According to Skocpol, students had to write a five-page essay to gain admission to his graduate school class. She described him as a “very old-fashioned, rigorous professor, but very inspiring.” Skocpol recalled that Moore conducted class in a “Socratic-totalitarian?...
With students working against the deadline for their first project in Visual and Environmental Studies 123r: “Post-Brush: Studio Course,” Professor Annette Lemieux circled the classroom last Monday, commenting, guiding, and challenging students’ beliefs about the correct way to make their ideas into...