Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Committee on El Salvador is planning a candle-light march and teach-in next month to protest the United States government's support of the ruling military junta in the civil-war torn country...
...that it discriminates against students whose high school curricula weren't geared to the test. He thus ignores the point that a properly "basic" test is designed to detect severe shortcomings in the school system. And afterarguing convincingly that the tendency for schools to coach for tests rather then teach subjects is harmful, his "Beating the System" chapter heartily recomments SAT prep course plugs Stanley Kaplan by name, and adds that in prepping properly for the tests a student should pick up a core of basic knowledge...
...profound observations about the nature and meaning of time. "What is past is not dead, it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers," Wolf writes. Thus A Model Childhood becomes above all a plea to reconnect ourselves with our past, and teach our children the lessons of history as best we can--not to perpetuate guilt, but rather to promote sensitivity in the present...
Eizenstat's announcement follows that of Hedley Donovan, a senior political adviser to Carter, who also said last week he will teach a half-semester course at the K-School this spring. A third Carter aide, Anne Wexler, who served as chief White House liaison to special interest groups, said recently she is discussing a temporary post for this year with school officials...
...decides to leave her Washington, D.C., public relations firm to teach at Harvard, Wexler said she will offer a seminar examining the role of special interest groups in public policy making...