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This discovery eventually led to the simple model of the atom which is still taught in high school physics courses: the nucleus consists of positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons, around which negatively charged electrons orbit. Yet the continuous discovery of new particles, such as the unstable muon, challenged this simple theory. In addition, this theory raised further theoretical questions: how was the nucleus held together? Why did radioactive decay exist...
Simmons said that her experiences at Hampshire College have taught her much about education. "[Hampshire's] stress on creativity and its multi-disciplinary approach to education overlaps the interests of the MacArthur Foundation," Simmons said. "This change provides me with a wonderful opportunity--it is an outgrowth of my career at Hampshire...
SOMETIMES, changes for the better come easily. Even at Harvard. The Standing Committee of the Core Curriculum decided last week to grant Literature and Arts B credit to students who took the earlier incarnation of the Core version of Music 30, "Jazz History for Non-Majors." Taught by Professor of Music Graeme M. Boone, the course was designed to serve as an introduction to jazz for non-concentrators...
...seek out campuses for old-fashioned intellectual fulfillment. "Ever since I got out of college, I wanted to go back," says retired lawyer Robert Friedman, 73, who is one of 400 students enrolled in Harvard's Institute for Learning in Retirement, a program of courses specially created for and taught ! by retirees on the Cambridge campus. Eckerd College, strategically located in St. Petersburg, has even opened a 133-unit senior citizen condominium on its campus, complete with 60 nursing beds...
Student teachers are taught for a world of 30 years ago, said Reyes, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. No longer are the public school predominantly white--today, teachers should be prepared for classrooms of 75 percent Black or Hispanic. Reyes said that student teachers rarely have any experience with multi-cultural perspectives and have no practical experience with minorities in the classroom...