Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to teach frenetics to cope...
...seen their books turn into unlikely best sellers. University of Chicago Professor Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind attacked U.S. universities for dereliction of their duty to educate. The University of Virginia's E.D. Hirsch Jr. in Cultural Literacy blasted U.S. schools for failing to teach Western culture. Latest to join the list of academic provocateurs: Russell Jacoby, a former visiting scholar at the University of California in San Diego, whose new work, The Last Intellectuals (Basic Books; $18.95), argues that the U.S. is running out of what he calls public intellectuals...
Another potential solution would require the involvement of the University. It should not permit TFs with repeatedly low and unacceptable CUE guide ratings to teach until they present evidence that they have seen the light and amended their ways. Once again, however, the financial aid structure of graduate study makes such a simple yet effective suggestion seem utopian...
...offers a good example of the scandalous chaos that currently governs the hiring of TFs. In the Economics Department, a student's introduction to the discipline depends entirely upon the quality of his section leader. Since teaching is done almost entirely in section, you would expect Ec 10 teacher selection process to be especially rigorous. Yet look around the kiosks of Littauer and count the number of "Do you want to teach Ec 10?" signs you find. And observe how many soon-to-be-lawyers are training our future economists. Under the present system, any Tom, Dick, or Harry with...
Such lax hirings standards translate into shabby teaching. Last year, according to an Economics professor and member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, the Department hired five poorly qualified instructors to teach Ec 10. That's in addition to all the qualified TFs who are just bad teachers...