Word: teach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what seemed at the time to be a significant scoop, the Wall Street Journal last Aug. 25 carried a story that began, "The U.S. and Libya are on a collision course again, and the Reagan Administration is preparing to teach the mercurial Libyan leader another lesson." White House Spokesman Larry Speakes described the report as "unauthorized but highly authoritative." That was enough to send U.S. news organizations scrambling after a yarn that promised to involve terrorist plots and possible U.S. retaliation...
...president's annual report last year, Bokcalled on universities to develop better methodsof rating how well they teach their students...
...issue of how well universities teach andguide their students has been an issue of concernamong many educators, including Bok and Bennett,during the past two years...
Bennett has said that if colleges develop theirown means of testing how well they teach,standardized tests will not be necessary...
...There are professors at Harvard who are so brilliant that it doesn't matter if they can teach," he said. But, he added, Harvard also has professors who are devoted and capable teachers, who compensate for those whose strengths lie outside the classroom...