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Instilling confidence is a prime objective. Psychologist Beverly Benjamin, founder of Nanny Plan, teaches students to deal with everything from a pass by a husband to a mother's jealousy of a nanny's close relationship with her child. Bunge tells students, "You are a resource person like an accountant or an attorney. You have to present your information in a subtle way." Yet most schools teach some assertiveness training. "Families tend to overburden nannies," says Larry Uno, of the California Nannie College in Sacramento. "We teach them...
...missiles. He will air American concerns about the potential upgrading of Soviet air-defense systems. He will also share U.S. ideas about how emerging weapons technologies like laser beams and other "directed energy" might be used to promote greater stability for both sides. In short, Kampelman will try to teach the Soviets to think like Ronald Reagan...
...would signal to other, traditional departments that Harvard is finally serious in its commitment to women's studies-- an indication that should spur these departments to increase the small number of courses they offer which examine women at all. And important scholars like Showalter might finally be persuaded to teach at Harvard...
...DANGER, then, is that education reformers will go too far in what is generally a worthy quest to restore quality to lackluster public schools. Efforts to archive consistency can result in uniformly moreover, communities may, understate mandate, lose control of what their schools will teach. Students, never accorded much of a role in planning their own studies, are losing whatever measure of free choice they did have, whether that involves taking driver education and not trigonometry, or opting put of the comprehensive high school entirely. True school reform, rather than replacing the failures on the phase in educational theory with...
...faculty committee would provide a resource for the development of alternative sections and the presentation of different perspectives on economics. Such a committee could better make choices regarding such important matters as textbooks and essential curricula, while leaving section leaders free to teach. Governance by committee and the Development of a variety of alternative sections will not eliminate the central role of mainstream economic theory in Ec 10. Rather, it will promote the most fundamental aspect of a liberal arts education--critical thinking...