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Departments as diverse as History of Art and Architecture (HAA) and Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) offer paid field trips to help their students learn outside the classroom...
Mankiw joined the Harvard faculty in 1985, and since that time his economic textbooks have become standards in the classroom, including his widely popular introductory text, Principles of Economics. He was appointed in February of 2003 by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate in May of that same year...
...hand down power to their children. And in a dig described by one U.S. official as "more personal" than the criticisms leveled in previous bin Laden tapes, he taunted Bush with the fact, popularized by Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, that the President sat for seven minutes in a classroom reading "The Pet Goat"after learning about the 9/11 attacks. "This gave us three times the time needed to carry out the operations, thanks be to God," he said...
...retooling of the U.S. History program is also under way. But those changes will fix only part of the problem. AP courses and exams are created by teams of university professors who periodically revisit the curriculums, but the program information they send out is simply a guideline for classroom instructors. There is no mandated curriculum, nor is there any required training of teachers for AP classes, which is why the quality of the courses can vary widely from school to school. "Ultimately, our quality control is in the exam," concedes Packer...
Grumet-Morris’ intelligence helps him on the ice as much as it does in the classroom...