Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diminishing returns is central to the discipline of economics. But it is a lesson that reformers in the Harvard department appear not yet to have learned--and traditionalists seem determined to teach them...
...placing the proposal on the Faculty docket, the Council disregarded a proposal from Martin H. Peretz, master of South House, that would have allowed non-faculty members to teach House courses by obtaining a special teaching appointment...
...reading tests, they must be inferior. They somehow fail to notice not only that black schools are more poorly funded, but that many teachers--influenced by theories like these--go into their jobs with the attitude that black children can't learn, and so make no serious attempt to teach them. A study by Lenore Jacobson and Robert Rosenthal (Pygmalion in the Classroom) showed that, when teachers were convinced that certain pupils were likely to begin doing better, those pupils' performance improved markedly...
Shapiro will continue to teach and study constitutional law in the newly formed Political Science department at San Diego, which he helped organize...
...Harvard students see a lot of professors leaving here, especially for the West Coast, but they don't understand that Harvard does not dominate the academic world like it did 40 years ago," he said. "There are now many more respectable and attractive places to teach than in the past...