Word: method
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...auditory discrimination handicap is an inability to distinguish adequately between sounds. Harvard's reliance upon the audio-lingual method of teaching a language makes a student with this handicap unable to participate or to learn properly in these courses...
...seems for the moment to be the most effective and efficient method of providing minority groups with equal opportunities in education. No one?save possibly school-bus manufacturers?is in favor of "busing for the sake of busing," the chimera that Richard Nixon belabors. Blacks, after all, have as strong a sense of neighborhood schools as whites do. But as Nicholas Hood, a black city councilman in Detroit, puts it: "It's pragmatic. We don't have any desire to be close to white people just for the sake of being close to white people. We want the same thing...
Last August the California Supreme Court ruled, in Serrano v. Priest, that California schools must be financed by a more equitable method than widely varying property taxes. A child's right to an equal chance for education, the court said, should not depend on the wealth of his parents or where he lives. Similar judgments are eventually expected in other states, and Minnesota's Supreme Court has already adopted such a ruling. If the drive to "equalize" school finance forced wealthy suburban communities to support schools in poor urban areas, parents might have less objection to busing their children...
Typically, business schools teach management as a science and, through case-method paper exercises, train their students to fit into large corporations. Southern Methodist University in Dallas, however, wants to turn out not organization men but wheeler-dealers in the Texas style of Computer Centimillionaire H. Ross Perot and Financier John D. Murchison, both S.M.U. trustees. So the students are learning primarily by becoming small-scale entrepreneurs while they are still undergraduates...
Currently, all first year Law students must take full-year courses in Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, Torts, a half-year course in Legal Method, and a half year course taught in a small section...