Word: teachers
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...feeling that grades often damage the educational value of courses. First, grades can create a feeling among students that they are competing for the attention and approval of the sectionmen...Second...often a student--with or without cause--will write papers and exams which he thinks will "please" the teacher. Finally, we feel that teachers, if they must grade papers, do not respond in the same way as if they were reading critically for ideas and argument. The prospect of grading a paper alters one's perception of it. Therefore, we have decided that the grading system should be substantially...
...only way to fill the curricular gap in teacher training, of course, is to hire more faculty. Sizer could throw out established or incipient research projects to raise the funds and hire faculty but he refuses. "There have been very few schools," says Sizer, "that have been able to stay with basic inquiry. The one's that don't, become trade schools. We can't keep putting band-aids on urban schools. We've got to have some long-range solutions." To get at the problem of training teachers Sizer has applied for a federal grant to fund two clinical...
...Buddhist, a southerner and a close friend of Premier Tran Van Huong (a former student of ex-Teacher Huong, Minh still addresses him as "Master"), Minh would be an obvious asset in any national reconciliation effort...
Measure of Merit. Shanker concedes that there are bad teachers in the system and insists that his union is as interested in improving standards as anyone else. "You walk into a classroom," he says, "and you see the same teacher and the same blackboard you saw 20 years ago." But this, he says, happens because teachers "have been castrated," and the way to improve them is to give them more power. "Teachers are no longer willing to be supervised by people who have less professional competence than they...
Rosenthal and Jacobson politely refrain from moralizing, suggesting only that "teachers' expectations of their pupils' performance may serve as self-fulfilling prophecies." But the findings raise some fundamental questions about teacher training. They also cast doubt on the wisdom of assigning children to classes according to presumed ability, which may only mire the lowest groups into self-confining ruts. If children tend to become the kind of students their teachers expect them to be, the obvious need is to raise the teachers' sights. Or, as Eliza Doolittle says in Shaw's Pygmalion, "The difference between...