Word: implicitly
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...even the most important reason. The teachers' grasp and feeling for mathematics: that is the crucial issue, already for teachers in the early grades. Here, it turns out, many of the reformers agree with the critics. Teacher training in America has traditionally and grossly stressed pedagogy over content. The implicit message to the teachers is: If you know how to teach, you can teach anything! It will take a heroic effort--by mathematicians and math educators--to change the entrenched culture of teacher training...
...College’s role in reuniting families on the River is limited, so perhaps pressure is exerted within the families. James Carmichael ’01, whose parents also attended Harvard, surmised that his sister felt “implicit pressure” from the three family members; she was recently admitted to the Class of 2004. Carmichael’s parents were probably frustrated, he explains, that his sister might apply to a different college solely for the sake of rebellion. “I believe it got a little tight a couple of times...
...crop of teen divas? All the old dames are lame... And while we're in the land of teen pop, I'm quite embarrassed by 'NSync's shattering of the one-day sales records with 2.4 million sold for No Strings Attached. Even more frightening was the Backstreet Boys' implicit challenge to that record when asked by a reporter for their comment, "We'll see you in October when our new album comes out"... And while we're on the subject of the BSB, let me tell you a true story. At a party in Leverett this weekend, a girl...
...Athletics have caught Wolfe's eye because he believes that they are a fundamental expression of manliness, with all its implicit virtue and detriment. Tom Wolfe to Judith Butler: the sexes are intrinsically different. Though women might fiddle with a lacrosse stick, to Wolfe, the athletic realm is one that is not yet tainted by femininity. Like his opponents in this nurture-nature debate, Wolfe alludes to the bogus scientific findings of his own experience and concludes that "genetic memory" keeps men men, despite the influences of a culture that increasingly tries to erase or ignore the possibility that...
Harvard's excellent Afro-American Studies department serves as an outstanding model of an effective way to study the subject of race and ethnicity in the United States. The department offers courses on Afro-American literature, sociology, political organization, history and philosophy. Implicit in the structure of the concentration is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the unique Afro-American experience. It recognizes that ethnicity should not be viewed only through the lens of a single academic area...