Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to find anything positive in a deadly plague, but immunologists, virologists and cancer experts agree that AIDS represents a remarkable experiment of nature. The new scourge, says New York Immunobiologist Pablo Rubinstein, "may teach us more about cancer and old, familiar diseases than we are able to fathom at this time...
...training workshop held last week at the Forman School, nationally known experts and teachers gathered to discuss ways that dyslectics, especially teenagers, can reach their intellectual capacity. All agreed there is much that both public schools and parents can do that they are not now doing to teach dyslectic children. The main prescription: old-fashioned phonics, a system of learning to read by sounding out words by letter and syllable. Says Forman Headmaster Richard Peirce: "What Forman is trying to do is affect the national education scene by educating people to what dyslexia is-a difference in how people process...
Harvard Education Professor Jeanne Chall told participants at the conference, "The right teaching is the most important thing. All the children could make it if we gave them more of the attention they need." Chall's book, Learning to Read: The Great Debate, fueled a phonics controversy in 1965, and a revised edition, due out next spring, presents new research supporting the phonics method of teaching reading to all children. But despite the evidence, many schools continue to teach the so-called look-say method, which depends upon visual recognition and memorization. While the look-say method works...
...thinking that to be attractive to men, I should be soft, feminine and caked in cosmetics," she recalls. "But when I was 25, I took up tennis and got hooked. The arm muscles tennis built up looked pretty neat, I thought. So I started weight lifting. Now I teach aerobics and tennis, and I have a new idea of the attractive woman...
...Greenberg, the dean says, "It works against, not for, shared goals of racial and social justice." Argues Roger Fisher, a faculty member normally sympathetic to minority activists: "It is a mistaken notion to think one must personally be the victim of a particular problem to be able to teach about that problem. One need not be charged with being insane to teach about the insanity defense...