Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teachers, and with children. Last year, for example, the school inaugurated a "principal center", where public school headmasters can come and discuss different ways of improving their schools. Headed by Ed School professors, the center has provided a low-key forum for these school leaders to develop new plans in their spare time...
Other new programs include a month-old curriculum for training mid-career professionals who decide to retire early to become math and science teachers. Also this year a new concentration was added to train Ed-School students to develop computer software programs for school systems, especially for use in the classroom. These two new programs will enable the Ed School students to get into classrooms and to learn how to deal with kids instead of being thrown into the fray unprepared after graduation...
...argue whether Aristotle is more important than Hobbes, Raphael than Vermeer, entropy than gravity. In choosing, it is important to think not only of what faculty are capable of teaching well, but of where students have been before they came, what their various subcultures on campus are and might develop into, and where diverse cohorts among them are headed. For any program to work well, students and faculty must be prepared to suspend disbelief in it, and sustain a certain level of intensity which will occassionally be joyful, more commonly effortful, even painful. Let us call whatever we conclude about...
...best of my knowledge, Harvard is not engaged in any scientific research to develop nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, by flatly prohibiting research on nuclear weapons and their components, the Act could literally be read to extend even to the work of our professors and students on arms negotiations, the nuclear arms race, and the avoidance of nuclear war. Granted, proponents of the Act probably did not intend this result, and a later section of the Act does exclude "basic research, the purpose of which is not to work toward the development of nuclear weapons," Even no, at time some of Harvard...
...rejection of the voice vote at Adams indicates, Houses image is another concern that shapes decisions made by House Committees. While the nature of the housing lottery allows these images sophomores were assigned rooms unclaimed in to develop by attracting a certain type of student to the House, what the House Committee does and the activities it plans can be crucial to maintaining or dispelling this image, and to meeting or rising above residents' expectations of life in a particular House. "The House Committees are an equalizing factor in the Houses," says Archie C. Epps III, dean of students...