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...short, the dreaded SAT could actually help produce a national curriculum, a sweeping education reform enacted without the passage of a single law. In the process, the test itself will have to change to include questions more like classroom exercises and less like--well, less like SAT items. Two types of SAT questions are vanishing: those frustrating little analogies ("somnolent is to wakeful" as "graceful is to clumsy") and the quirky math items that ask you to compare two complex quantities (see chart on next page for an example). Instead of the venerable math and verbal sections, the test will...
...whip up some of the biggest laughs of the year. Black plays Dewey Finn, a guitarist thrown out of his band, rendering him even less capable of paying the rent that he owes his substitute teacher roommate. Posing as his roommate, he assumes the responsibility of educating a classroom of unusually well-behaved fifth graders, who he discovers to be, rather conveniently, excellent musicians. School of Rock echoes with comic and emotional resonance without getting mired in sentimentality, allowing Black to revel in a role in which he manages to hit all of his notes perfectly...
...want to bring some of the literary world into the classroom,” Wood says, “and I think that might have been part of the English department’s idea in hiring me.” His fall course, English 90lv, “Consciousness from Austen to Woolf,” explores ways in which novelists represent thought. Originally intended for 15 students, the class was more than doubled to 35 when over 70 people came to the first meeting...
...roads, byways and lost lanes” of academic research, though he suspects most academics aren’t either. Some authors he will be lecturing about in his next class—among them Bellow, Martin Amis, and Ian McEwan—may even visit the classroom...
Gross said the main problem with online forms is response rates. Without holding students captive in a classroom to fill out the evaluations, members worried, fewer people might complete them...