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...sentence has not been imposed, largely because the Index itself has become one of the world's rarest books. Even many Catholic college libraries do not have a copy. While schools often go through the motions of getting official permission for their students to read forbidden books for classwork, most Catholics regard the Index as a dead letter and read what they want...
Relaxing Habit. Today he devotes part of his time to work on basic theory "trying to figure out what it all means," part to preparation for classwork. He usually teaches radio astronomy or galactic dynamics for three hours a week to Caltech's bright undergraduate and graduate students. This semester, however, normal staff rotation has left him without any classes, enabling him to devote full time to the pursuit of his quasars. Despite the challenges of his job, though, he takes pains never to miss dinner at home. "It is," says Corrie Schmidt, "the only time he really...
...every student a place that matches his ability, although it differs from "ability grouping" as practiced experimentally elsewhere in that it fixes curricula firmly beginning with the fourth grade and allows little choice of courses. Kids are permitted to jump up a track or so, if capable. Keeping classwork commensurate with abilities seems to decrease the incentive to quit school: Washington's dropout rate has declined to 36%, from 52% when Hansen took over seven years...
Nieman fellows spend a full academic year of unrestricted study at Harvard to improve their professional competence. With the aid of the Curator and Faculty members, each fellow designs a program of classwork, seminars, and reading to make full use of the University's resources...
...planning a fourth, beginning next October. Courses include the standard liberal arts and sciences, plus "Advanced Fundamental Skills," which teaches "swimming, dancing, weight training, judo, wrestling, fencing," and Course 300, a "historical overview of the European origin of sports, games and gymnastics." The daily schedule of five hours of classwork had its problems. "You'd be writing an exam, and your chair would be sliding across the deck," says Roberta Mount, 18, of Hayward, Calif...