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...Summer sections for many failing students started this week in Baltimore, New York Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Denver, Cleveland New Orleans and Miami. Students who failed assessment tests and had lagging schoolwork will be promoted based on summer school completion as well as year-round classroom performance. New York estimates a staggering one third of its approximately 327,000 public school students will need the extra classroom time...
...Ellis lie? For the most part, his stories weren't heroic but put him--and through him, his students--on the scene. It was sometimes a florid stage, as when Ellis told of seeing a burly comrade reading Emily Dickinson and weeping on the battlefield. "There is a classroom persona you have as a teacher that's not quite you," says Mount Holyoke's dean of faculty, Donal O'Shea. "There's an element of great teaching that's theater. And Professor Ellis was expert at that." Fellow baby boomers speculate that Ellis gave in to a generational tendency...
...took Ellis' Vietnam course will be contacted to determine the severity of the lies. Some colleagues suspect that Ellis will resign before the investigation is complete. "He's devastated by this," says O'Shea. Academics, and historians in particular, traditionally think of truth as their gospel and the classroom as their church. "Knowingly being dishonest in class is just as great an act of moral turpitude as being knowingly dishonest or inaccurate in your written work," says David Garrow, a Pulitzer prizewinning historian at Emory University...
...fund will be used to enhance the classroom instruction and research of animal rights law at the Harvard Law School...
...someone who has never stood before a roomful of yawning, eye-rolling college students in turned-around baseball caps, slouching toward the horizontal in their chairs, some of them actually snoring, heads thrown back and mouths wide open, so that you see all the way to the tonsils - a classroom that looks like the waiting room at Dulles International when it's socked in by a three-day blizzard...