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...York, by contrast, was more unorthodox, he said, describing that they spent class periods crafting excuse notes for creative writing assignments, assigning themselves grades, or studying the “deeper meanings” of Little Bo Beep and Humpty Dumpty. They also invented obituaries for their teachers??“not [one] had a peaceful passing,” he added. Never confining his teaching to a syllabus, McCourt said, “I had no methods. I shot from the hip...I was able to seize things that allowed me to survive in the classroom...
...have little enthusiasm for course evaluations even for teaching assistants and fellows. It’s consumerism, and it puts ill-formed opinion of students at the center of teachers?? evaluation,” said Mansfield, the Kenan professor of government...
...Thierry Muñoz Ledo, attended the event, and activists entered a reception after the show with the aim of urging him to sign a letter condemning the actions of his country’s leaders as well as the Oaxaca governor. The strife in Oaxaca erupted with a teachers?? strike this past May. The strikers and their allies accuse Governor Ulises Ruiz of corruption and want him to resign. The conflict turned violent on June 14, when police tried to evict the demonstrators from the city’s central plaza. At least eight others have died...
Apples are making a campus comeback, and it’s not on teachers?? desks. Apple Computer’s chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, announced last week that the company’s higher education division just had its best ever back-to-school quarter, and Harvard is part of the trend. According to Daniel D. Moriarty, the University’s chief information officer (CIO), personal purchases of Macintosh computers at Harvard are up 30 percent from last year, while sales of IBM Lenovo machines have more or less flat-lined. Moriarty added that Harvard...
...have statistics departments, only mathematics departments,” said his daughter, Gale Mosteller. “Now major universities typically have both.”In addition to establishing statistics as its own respectable field at universities, he worked to introduce statistics in high schools. He helped write teachers?? manuals in the field and taught a televised course on statistics in NBC’s “Continental Classrooms” in 1961.He later chaired the Department of Biostatistics at the School of Public Health (HSPH), and both developed and chaired the school?...