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Boasting an enrollment of 372 students, Social Analysis 78, “Globalization and its Critics,” taught by Summers and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, is second in size only to the perennial top dog, Social Analysis 10, “Introduction to Economics.” Ec 10 enrolled 630 students this semester, according to figures released by the Office of the Registrar yesterday...
When Pam Barratt was still working full time as a chemistry teacher and raising her two children, life as a social activist was complicated. Sidwell Friends, the Washington-area private school where she taught, was surprisingly accommodating after she was arrested in 1988 while protesting U.S. involvement in El Salvador. Her son and daughter tolerated the seven families of refugees from Cambodia, Vietnam and Czechoslovakia who moved in and out of their home over a 13-year period. But Barratt was torn: teaching chemistry to wealthy kids forced her to temper her passion for social activism. "I was always interested...
Harvard rolled up its sleeves, dusted its jeans, and taught Yale a 90-55 lesson...
...into "boy central," enjoyed having two "daughters" last year, from Iceland and France: the three women loved cooking, trading intimacies and getting done up at the salon together. Another year, Richard Marshall, a singer in his church choir, finally found a musical soul mate in a German "daughter." He taught her the tune for Itsy Bitsy Spider, which they sang in the car, making up their own lyrics...
...deepest level, teachers fear that all this parental anxiety is not always aimed at the stuff that matters. Parents who instantly call about a grade or score seldom ask about what is being taught or how. When a teacher has spent the whole summer brightening and deepening the history curriculum for her ninth-graders, finding new ways to surprise and engage them, it is frustrating to encounter parents whose only focus is on test scores. "If these parents were pushing for richer, more meaningful instruction, you could almost forgive them their obnoxiousness and inattention to the interests...