Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What to teach about sex-or even whether-is an intensifying dilemma of U.S. education. The big New York City school system ignores the subject; the big Los Angeles system takes pride in treating it. Washington, D.C., offers candid sex education, at least partly to fight down the high rate (1,100 cases a year) of unwed pregnancy among high school girls; just across the Potomac in Virginia, state law prohibits any public school sex instruction. Even among communities that think sex is a fit classroom subject, there is no unanimity of approach; some teach blunt physiology, with pictures; some...
Some "very exciting changes" will be made next year in English 10, according to Alfred, not in the subject matter but in the way the course is taught. Alfred traditionally teaches the first semester of English 10. Next year, the first half will be given by Larry D. Benson, associate professor of English, while David D. Perkins, professor of English, will teach the second half...
During his sabbatical, Alfred plans to teach a freshman composition course at Berkeley, and a drama course to the nuns at the Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart. Another possibility is an experiment in which Alfred will teach English to third-graders in New York City...
...departments are already under study and the can be expected this Spring. The implications of the HPC's undertaking are exciting; for the first time at Harvard, students will have a significant, institutionalized voice in how and what they should be taught, and--to a lesser extent--who should teach them...
...Volunteer Teachers for Africa program has been enlarged from 12 to 16 participants, project director Gordon R. Kehler '67 said yesterday. The volunteers will teach English, as well as domestic science and hygiene, in Tanganyika...