Word: teaches
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...found it somewhat dismaying to see that even the Summerbridge program--a program designed to teach America's students using a non-traditional method--was confined by standardized testing strictures. This fall I read an issue of Newsweek that spoke to my concerns. A flood of memories poured over me: I began to collect information from editorials, essays, novels, speeches, casual conversation and personal experience. Now, I feel compelled to contribute my viewpoints to the already volatile debate...
Once these aspiring educators enter the teaching sphere, their carefully developed approaches are stonewalled--they are asked to conform to the increasingly rote systems of teaching. The attempts of education programs like Summerbridge to foster novel approaches to teaching are continually nullified by the teach-to-the-test approach that transforms teachers into machines. Richard L. Wade, Headmaster of the prestigious Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, refers to this trend as "packaging our schools." This process of frustrating the ambitions of would-be teachers perpetuates and validates the saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach...
...every quarter, but content is rolling and a new piece is added weekly. Icon Magazine celebrates the power of storytelling and the interactive possibilities possible on the Internet. The magazine contains everything from simple text to a few interactive multimedia presentations, and the staff of Icon is eager to teach and train aspiring webmasters and curious beginners in the ways of web design. While the magazine currently contains mostly traditional pieces, it seems to be leaning in the direction of hypertext literature and net art, giving it the potential to become Harvard's most cutting-edge publication. Contact Icon with...
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...Over the year, I talk to and teach more than 1,000 doctors from all over the country, so I'm able to look past regional concerns," Bursztajn says. "Harvard also offers a real trans-disciplinary opportunity....I get to speak to friends at the business school, the law school, and the medical school on issues...