Word: taught
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...letters ask Dean Rosovsky and Peter S. McKinney, acting dean of GSAS, to set the limit by counting the number of courses taught, instead of counting the number of years spent as a teaching fellow, Panayote E. Dimitras, chairman of the council, said yesterday...
...Mexico City Olympics, emphasizes blacks' limited access to other careers and describes the process that follows. He told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer: "With the channeling of black males disproportionately into sports, the outcome is the same as it would be at Berkeley if we taught and studied nothing but English. Suppose that everyone who got here arrived as a result of some ruthless recruitment process where everyone who couldn't write well was eliminated at every level from age six all the way through junior college. It would only be a short time before the greatest prose...
...says it explodes the myth that irremediable learning problems result from the cultural environment of poverty. He places the blame for functional illiteracy on the schools rather than on the schoolchildren. "They were not born dumb," Hentoff says. "Their burden is that they have not been successfully taught...
...values that they set aside their own beliefs when teaching their children. For example, only 13% of all parents firmly believe that "people in authority know best," but 69% want to teach the principle to their young. Reports the study: "The children of the New Breed are being taught patriotism, the importance of saving, the need for hard work, respect for authority and that having sex outside marriage is morally wrong, all of which their parents no longer believe themselves." Some other findings...
Landes, who frequently taught courses listed under both the History and Economics Departments, declined to discuss the reasons for his decision this week...