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...university has benefited in other ways. Teachers in training, who used to crowd into cavernous auditoriums for class, can spend their days on-site at the K-12 public schools. Several mornings a week, a professor lectures in a borrowed room and then the education students fan out to classrooms to perfect their new skills. Says Sally Blake, an associate professor of education at UTEP: "Now I can see what actually works in the classroom with real students and teachers." Henry Levin, a professor of economics and education at Columbia University's Teachers College, says that "universities like...
...Will, Tim Russert, Eleanor Clift, Peter Jennings, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, Maureen Dowd, John McLaughlin, Ollie North, Mort Kondracke, Jack Germond, Bill Press, Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Springer - all shouting at once, interrupting one another, sneering, one-upping, gesticulating, rolling their eyes, looking for all the world like a classroom full of first graders waving their hands, all seized at the same time by a desperate urgency to get to the boys' and girls' rooms. Not even President Limbaugh could get them to shut...
Many professors refrain from broadcasting lectures on the Internet because of the fear that students will stop attending the lecture and replace the classroom experience with watching the lectures on the web. This is not a legitimate fear. The lectures broadcast on the web cannot compete with class for two reasons: First, lectures are broadcast three or four days after the class. Students interested in doing well on the Friday problem sets will want to attend the lectures that week...
Finally, undergraduates should consider the important roles that TFs play in their education. At Yale, the TF union was the primary voice in favor of small section sizes, English-language training for foreign TFs and improved teacher training overall. Better working conditions for graduate students mean better classroom conditions for undergraduates. Undergraduates help themselves when they champion TF concerns...
...1800s, their mission was clear: to teach females, who were largely excluded from higher education. And even as more institutions opened their doors to both genders, studies found that many women learned more in a female-only environment, where, among other benefits, there were no men to dominate classroom discussions. But what's to become of women's colleges now, as a new generation of female students has confidently outperformed males since elementary school and become the majority at most mainstream colleges and universities...