Word: teaching
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...remains to be seen, however, whether anyone will sincerely struggle to teach students "what they should know" for any reason but to get them into colleges. Strictly dictated competencies can always backfire. They did so several years ago in the much-publicized incident of a New Jersey teacher fired for exposing his students to Aritsotle's Poetics to help them study Romeo and Juliet; the school board ruled he was stinting the time reserved for the approved, watered-down exercises in the county syllabus...
...offer the race and law course that Bell had taught. In part, because the students had been spectacularly unsuccessful in convincing the school simply to bring new minority faculty, they linked their demands, and asked not only that the course be continued, but that a minority instructor continue to teach...
...students stopped here, the great legions of reporters and national pundits who love to draw "lessons," and prove trends by citing occurrences at Harvard, might have remained silent. But the angry law students went a step further--attacking Greenberg's ability, as a white person, to teach the course. Kenyatta wrote a letter to Chambers in mid-May, in which he outlined his group's perspective: "Shortly after learning of this proposed arrangement, the BLSA executive committee met and carefully considered the matter in light of several relevant factors. Paramount among these is BLSA's desire that Constitutional...
...early education, Henry Adams once wrote, "It taught little and that little ill." Many of America's schools today teach precious little of what students ought to know, and that little ill. High school diplomas are routinely awarded to students who are functionally illiterate, who cannot do long division, and who have no idea what is contained in the Bill of Rights. Among educators there is a sense of desperation that America's young lack even the rudiments of learning, and a still greater feeling of despair that nothing can be done about it. What can and should...
Some educators familiar with Paideia suggest that Adler has neglected one crucial question: Who will teach the teachers? Phil Keisling, an editor of the Washington Monthly, believes that "the legions of incompetent teachers is an even more distressing problem than the laxity of curricular standards." Adler acknowledges that further reforms will be necessary to retrain teachers, and he urges that teachers should receive a solid liberal arts education and "the hell with courses in pedagogy and educational philosophy...