Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegation to Iran "to explore the possibility of Harvard aiding in the development of the Iranian higher education system." It lists at least five people making the pilgrimage. Chase Peterson noted that "any action taken would have to [be] consistent with our educational purpose. Our job is to teach school and do research in Cambridge..." He states further that Harvard would pay for the trip "because we don't want to be under any obligation." By current rates for air travel that amounts to at least $7000 and possibly $10,200--for air travel alone! I think that...
...feudal chieftain known for nailing hats into the skulls of people who refused to remove them in his presence. The play itself, when presented at the Loeb last spring, was pretty awful, but Boston being the center of Dracula studies that it is--the world's two leading authorities teach at B.U.--maybe it'll turn out better at the Theater 369. Performances nightly (except Monday) at 8. Info...
Rosovsky's letter to the Faculty called for more student-faculty contact and said, "The availability of teaching fellows clearly permitted an expansion of tutorial programs and a greater freedom for faculty to teach specialized courses, but it is not clear that these changes have benefitted undergraduates...
...same time, new funds became available for teacher training and graduate fellowships, facilitating the increase in the GSAS during the 1960s to its high of 2827 in 1966-67. One of the supposed benefits of Harvard's graduate school is the opportunity it provides for students to teach. The influx of willing teaching fellows in the 1960s coincided with faculty members' desire to spend more time on research...
...Koch's most convincing arguments is that he didn't teach in some exclusive private school, where most children go home every day to an environment of encouragement, where literate, college-educated parents could react to poems, and where children could benefit from "acquired tastes." Instead, Koch taught at P.S.61 on Manhattan's lower East Side, where more than half the kids are black or Puerto Rican. And his results--at least those that were published--are impressive. For example, Koch asked a fourth grader to translate one sense into another and she wrote...