Word: student
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After correcting the themes the reader holds individual conferences with the students to discuss the deficiences in their writing and means for improvement. For this purpose the reader keeps for each student a running list of the types and frequency of errors...
...Immediate reinforcement of learning" in another common phrase in education today, and it is the principle behind the spelling machines being used at the Franklin School in Lexington. the teacher pronounces a spelling word, and the student writes a reply to it in a space provided in a small rectangular box. Then, by shifting a lever, he exposes the correct answer. He can thus compare his answer promptly with the correct one, and the immediate reinforcement that takes place is reputed to be extremely valuable in the learning process. The spelling machine also has the virtue of allowing children...
...medical care, rights and obligations of organized labor, and school desegregation have been selected for the social studies curriculum at the Concord Junior High School. These studies form the subjects for a "case method" technique of instruction, which, it is hoped, will substantially change a junior high school student's approach to contemporary national issues from simple information-giving recitation to "complex patterns of critical evaluation." The SUPRAD investigators hope to accomplish this by the use of special materials and by "probing-questioning Socratic discussion...
Second, the affidavit requirement demands that the student swear that he is, in effect, not a conspirator. It thus treats academic personnel as a prima facie suspect group...
Although the Student Government Association is trying to plug the gap left by Percussion with a mimeographed weekly sheet, they have dropped short of the mark, carrying only notices and official announcements at present. Fashion run-downs and other traditional Percussion features are absent...