Word: teaching
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Some public school administrators are concerned, however, that the new technology will erode their control. Principals have little leverage over teachers who live hundreds of miles away and do not teach exclusively in one district. Adolescent daydreaming carries less of a penalty when students know they can view a lesson on tape. "We don't play the typical games," says David Benke, who teaches computer science to pupils from San Isidro, Texas, and Prescott, Iowa. "You've got to have a student who really wants to learn...
...challenge is to change gradually the prejudices that these regimes have cynically cultivated since taking power. Ways must be found to teach people that a gain for one is not necessarily a loss for another, that long-term improvements may require short-term sacrifices, that some changes are for the good, that it is their responsibility to keep local authorities in line. Only that sociological change will make possible the economic and political reforms that Gorbachev, Deng and other reformers insist are necessary. Thus far, no Communist regime has found a way out of this dilemma. Lenin once said, "Give...
T.M.G. students may be allowed to pierce their ears and wear trendy hairstyles -- acts of individual expression forbidden in Japan's lockstep education system. But former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander hopes the Japanese will teach Americans something too. Speaking at the school's opening ceremonies, he bemoaned U.S. students' poor test scores and low high school graduation rates. "The Japanese have been careful to learn from us," he said. "Perhaps we can learn something from T.M.G...
...daughter to jump off a tower while strapped with wings to prove that mankind can fly? What kind of daughter, after being cowed by such a mother, would so quake at the parent- child bond that she would abandon her toddler to relatives and head off to Europe to teach? What kind of child, growing up as the object of battle between such willful women, would prove at once fiercer and more forgiving than either...
Sorensen and some other professors advocate a system which would allow junior faculty to teach half the usual couse load, with half their salary coming from the department and half coming from a dean's fund for junior faculty research...