Word: taught
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...when she premiered on New York City radio. She has taught at Lehman College, Brooklyn College, Adelphi
...says he feels uniquely qualified to run such an ambitious mission. He has taught, he has administrated, he has been in academia and he has flown in the Air Force...
Hughes also taught at Brown in 1940 and 1941 and at Stanford from 1952 to 1957, where he was chair of the history department...
...tenderness in evidence among many of the students, maybe less goading and cruelty than people have come to expect from this age, there are a couple of possible reasons. Many of these kids have known one another since grade school, and grown up in a tolerant time. Maybe Columbine taught them something. Maybe small-town, Midwestern kids are just nicer...
Like many teachers, Phillips has enormous control over what gets taught in her classroom and yet admits she is constrained when it comes to standards and expectations, like assigning homework. She guesses about 15% in her class actually do it, which means she can't base Tuesday's class on readings that no one did the night before. Bright kids get bored; slow kids get lost; the kids in the middle muddle through. Her colleague Bob Hutcheson puts it this way: "I wonder if among their peers, there isn't a certain norm of mediocrity. And if they shoot...