Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both words, with equal emphasis, about much of Vonnegut's fiction. Jailbird is no exception. Still, it is his best book in years and may prompt a new generation of college kids to adopt the author and the novel. That act will, at the very least, teach them one important fact: reading...
...women meet an emergency and are matched against more experienced hospital school students, they're often embarrassed and suffer by comparison." Diane McGivern, associate dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, acknowledges these shortcomings in some new graduate nurses but defends the curriculum by explaining: "We teach them problemsolving abilities and the analytic approach to handle situations...
...that point on, they are more truly on their own than they ever dreamed possible. Sometimes their fate is terrible. In A Distant Episode, a linguistics professor studying North African dialects stumbles foolishly into the hands of a gang of marauding nomads; they cut out his tongue and then teach him clownish tricks to perform at their revels. Other interlopers get gentler treatment. In Pastor Dowe at Tacaté, an ineffectual missionary is driven away from an Indian village by an act of generosity; local custom obliges him to accept a villager's seven-year-old daughter...
Such speech, widely known as black English, is customarily pounced upon by teachers trying to teach standard English usage. Though that would seem a normal part of pedagogy, a small group of Green Road parents felt that teachers were expressing their disapproval of black English too harshly, causing student embarrassment and hurting the children's chances to learn. The parents filed a federal suit in Michigan's Eastern District Court, demanding that school authorities "recognize" black English as a formal dialect with historic roots and grammatical rules...
ABOVE is a course description from the Harvard University Course Catalogue. Pretty boring, isn't it? What's worse, it's not really all that informative. After all, it is only what the professor thinks his course is supposed to teach, no more and usually a lot less...