Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks enrolled at Harvard has decreased nearly 25 per cent. The University claims that the decline in the number of black enrollees was unplanned, but official explanations for the phenomenon are unconvincing. Admissions officers have cited two reasons for the 25 per cent decline in black enrollment. First, teacher strikes in major Eastern urban centers interfered with recruiting. Second, black undergraduates now are less enthusiastic about recruiting new blacks than they have been in the past years...
...office hours or sat with me at lunch. My purpose was to stress a simple point I have always made about my courses and the written assignments and tests connected with them: that there is no trick or secret key to success; that what I wish, as a teacher, is a thoughtful reading of the assigned texts and an intelligent and critical attention to lectures. I am willing to describe an examination in advance so that students will understand this. As fond as I am of my students in Adams House, I have nothing whatever to gain from their doing...
...lost by 150 votes, but learned an invaluable lesson. On election day, Mrs. Elizabeth O'Brien, an elocution teacher who lived across the street, told him, "Tom, I'm going to vote for you even though you didn't ask me." Surprised, O'Neill replied: "Mrs. O'Brien, I've lived across the street from you for 18 years. I shovel your snow. I didn't think...
College newspaper columns of the time were filled with complaints that grading resulted in such academic horrors as "an authoritarian relationship between teacher and student" and "an undesirable reward structure" that "corrupts the educational process...
...Cleveland Junior High School Teacher Jo Carol LaFleur was pregnant and due to give birth in late July. She wanted to finish out the school year, but school board officials forced her to begin an unpaid maternity leave in March because of a standing rule that pregnant women must leave work five months before the baby is due. Such rules are vestiges of a time when skittish school boards were determined to keep visibly pregnant teachers out of the sight of schoolchildren. Now the boards contend that the rules are necessary to protect the health of mother and child...