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...class wasn't what I expected it to be," he says. "The biggest problem was the textbook...[Also] there wasn't really a logical progression of topics, at least in my mind. I got the feeling that the course didn't really have a focus; not even the professor knew where he was going...
First-year math students single out Math 22 as a particularly unfulfilling course, citing the textbook, disorganization and a lack of curricular focus...
...lessons simply to "teach for the test." Even in North Carolina, whose soaring scores earned accolades in Clinton's State of the Union address, some teachers tailor upwards of 80% of their lessons to the test, according to a University of North Carolina survey. "Teachers must go way beyond textbook instruction," says Felicita Santiago, principal of a Brooklyn public elementary school, where teachers came in an hour before school to help kids get ready for the exam. "Preparing for the test is a whole shift in methods of instruction...
...make a little scratch and regain a measure of respect at home--where the vast majority of his compatriots continue to revile him for causing their present woes--with the latest volume in his post-Politburo oeuvre. Titled Thoughts on the Past and the Future, the 300-page "textbook" consists of the former General Secretary's deep thoughts on his country and the 20th century as the millennium approaches. Although Columbia University Press is to publish an English-language edition in 1999, Gorby has little hope for redemption at home. The Russian-language run of Thoughts is embarrassingly small: just...
...Seed hardly projects the image of a scientific visionary driven to win the cloning race. "I lead a boring life," he says. Indeed, he seems to be spending more time watching television than cloning humans. Lying next to the chair within easy reach is his current reading matter: a textbook called Principles of Genome Analysis and the week's TV listings...