Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, unless educational reformers take children seriously, reform, at the very least, is hollow and arrogant. A child is still closer than any adult to the experience of childhood. No adult lives under the same stress of rapid personal growth and change. Few adults can approach the world with the same unclouded curiosity. Without romanticizing childhood, it is legitimate to maintain that the free expression of children's energies and perceptions is necessary for education, and that taking the insights of children seriously is crucial for the personal development of children and for improving their individual classroom settings as well...
...brains of a hen, only boys attend the school, which the authors acknowledge as "racism." However, like Herbert Kohl's sixth grade children in Harlem or the children in George Dennison's First Street School in lower Manhattan, the students improve when instructional flexibility, Individual encouragement, and a stress on group development are substituted for the rigidity, anonymity, and competitiveness of public schools...
...Harrison loves to stress the negative. If you make a mistake. Harrison will yank you right out of the line-up. A number of times people went into the game as substitutes and made mistakes the first time they got the ball. Harrison immediately took them out of the line-up," he said...
...that point, Harrison turned to me and asked. "Why don't you stress the positive? We set Harvard records for total points scored, highest average, most field goals made, most field goals attempted, and most rebounds. We averaged 85 points a game; why don't you talk about that...
...five grade schools and junior highs, existing buildings are divided into traditional and more venturesome learning groups from which parents can choose, and one freewheeling elementary school spin-off meets in a rented mansion. All the groups are integrated, although some schools more than others stress subjects especially relevant to blacks and Chicanos. At the high school level there are still more distinct educational choices...