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...College dean’s office. The rules include banning hard alcohol at Stein Clubs, prohibiting house-list advertising for private parties, and requiring students to register all social gatherings further in advance. The policy is currently a working draft, meaning that it is in effect but subject to change pending a Faculty of Arts and Sciences vote...
...goes so far as accessorizing with mementos of their academic love interests, I soon discovered to my delight that I’m not alone in following my heart to the classroom. The sex appeal of teaching staff has the happy power of arousing interest—in the subject matter. For example, my roommate was drawn to the linguistics department after Professor Andrew I. Nevins caught her fancy, and another friend packs her schedule by auditing extra courses taught by professors with sexy accents. Every female in my Shakespearean Tragedy section flocked to the course’s typically...
...link teacher compensation to raising student test scores. Merit pay has also become part of the debate in Congress over how to improve the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), triggering an outcry from teachers' unions, which oppose federal intrusion into how teachers get paid and evaluated. The subject is a touchy one for the Democrats, who count on support from the powerful teachers' unions. Last summer, Barack Obama endorsed merit pay at a meeting of the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers' union, so long as the measure of merit is "developed with teachers, not imposed...
...that his goal was not to prepare us for the AP biology exam; it was to teach us how to think like scientists, which he proceeded to do with a quiet passion, mainly in the laboratory. Mrs. Hastings, my stern, Radcliffe-trained English teacher, was as devoted to her subject as the gentle Doc Cappel was to his: a tough taskmaster on the art of writing essays and an avid guide to the pleasures of James Joyce. Looking back, I'd have to credit this inspirational pair for carving the path that led me to a career writing about science...
...children's capacity to learn. "Anyone without this has no business in the classroom," says Margaret Gayle, an expert on gifted education at Duke University, who has trained thousands of teachers in North Carolina. Another requirement, especially in the upper grades, is a deep knowledge of one's subject. According to research on teacher efficacy by statistician William Sanders, the higher the grade, the more closely student achievement correlates to a teacher's expertise in her field. Nationally, that's a problem. Nearly 30% of middle- and high school classes in math, English, science and social studies are taught...