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However far we have drifted from Weber's conception of American academics, StudentU.com has underhandedly transformed the sociologist's theory from a nostalgic ideal of the past to an urgency for the now. Once again, whether or not the students flock to a teacher will be "determined in large measure, larger than one would believe is possible, by purely external things: temperament and even the inflection of his voice...
Ithaca high school physics teacher Steve Wirt gets e-mail from parents regularly, some from moms and dads he believes might otherwise not pick up the phone with a concern. Using software called Blackboard CourseInfo, designed to make website building intuitive for teachers, Wirt conducts online chats with his students, often reviewing for a quiz or discussing homework problems...
IMMEDIATE INTERVENTION Five years ago, a Grimsley student shot and wounded an assistant principal and then turned the gun on himself. "Our kids know they don't want to go down that road again," says Phil Weaver, chairman of the school's counseling department. If teachers spot a kid who's having trouble, they immediately talk to a counselor who can set up a family conference, and Teague meets weekly with the school counselors to keep informed of potential problems. A strong parent-teacher-student association makes sure kids and families are aware of all the resources available within...
...kindergarten was so awful that 40 years later, Stephanie Johnson remembers every miserable detail. Raised by a stay-at-home mother, she had never spent much time with kids her age before. Arriving at school late, she endured the cold, silent stares of 30 other children as the teacher found her a seat. When her mother abruptly vanished, she felt abandoned, and her sniffling escalated into wails. "I felt like a garbage can deposited at the curb on trash day," she recalls...
...Jeremy would fare better. So the year before he was to start kindergarten, she overcame her lifelong shyness and began to canvass her California neighborhood, introducing herself to kids and their parents and setting up play dates with Jeremy's future classmates. In late summer, knowing that teachers often fix up their classrooms in the weeks before school starts, she dropped by the school so she and her son could meet his teacher, who invited them to look around the room. "I think we succeeded," Johnson says. "Jeremy is a happy, social child who, I am happy to say, occasionally...