Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provision, which is in the employment section, "was added partly as a joke and party as a way of showing those wide eye lierals just how ridiculous and how out of hand the civil rights act had really become," Lichtman said...
Dressed in worn sneakers, pants and a multicolored, shortsleeve shirt with a mini-microphone attached just below the neck, Chandler surveyed his section of nearly 50, well above Faculty of Arts and Sciences guidelines...
Chandler, head teaching fellow for Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck's class on world religions, then did something TFs rarely ever do in section. He lectured for 45 minutes...
That's why, according to Chandler, creating a comfortable section atmosphere is so important. If one student is dominating the discussion, stop her and ask the rest of the class to talk about their classmates' comments, he said. If you're assigned a section with "15 male seniors and 3 female freshmen," go to the head tutor and get it changed. If you suspect a student hasn't done the reading, don't put him on the spot by asking a specific question about a specific text...
...have a room like this one [with rows of seats facing forward], change it," he said. Otherwise, students will look at the teacher instead of each other, and section will be "18 separate dialogues between student and teacher...