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...lesson, follows a doctor on his rounds to learn how to practice medicine, or tags along with a crack dealer to learn the ropes of the drug trade. In fact, a body of scientists and educators maintains that it is the primary means by which people learn. "If you look at any successful learning situation, chances are you will find elements of apprenticeship," says John Seely Brown of the Institute for Research on Learning in Palo Alto, Calif...
Although apprenticeship can be a highly effective tool, it requires greater personal involvement and a deeper understanding of the subject matter than most conventional teaching methods. To help make up for the shortage of professionals skilled in this technique, educators look to a new generation of computer-based teaching tools that work with students much the way a teacher does, walking them through incorrect answers to show where they went astray. The key to these new tools is the concept of apprenticeship. Says Lauren Resnick, past president of the 14,500-member American Educational Research Association: "Apprenticeship has the promise...
...seems to be very future-oriented and very analytical," Kennedy says. "He is very concerned about how the University will look a long way down the road...
...Robert Stone works in a luxury corporate office in Manhattan," Zinn said. "He doesn't have to look into the eyes of coal miners who have black lung disease because their health benefits have been cut off by his company. If he isn't going to come down to the coal fields, we'll come up here...
...Look at the issue again, in a subtler shade. Investigators from the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights arrive for a compliance review of Harvard admissions with a specific directive to investigate possible discrimination against Asian-Americans. Harvard has justified the rate of Asian-American admissions--consistently 80 to 90 percent that of white students--with the group's relative lack of legacy students and small number of varsity athletes, both recruitment factors at the University...