Word: woefulness
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...student-run newsletter which has already criticized passive student roles and the training of the School's teaching fellows, and along the Harvard chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, backed an evaluation of Ed School courses. At the same time, another group of students banded together informally as the Woeful Educators, obtained two course innovations, and will soon submit reports on urban education, supervision of student teachers, and course planning...
...student movement been without its own internal political disagreements. Because some members of the Woeful Educators imagine that the spontaneity and spirit of free criticism will be stifled by official recognition, they have spurned the suggestion that they ally themselves with The Student Association's Committee on Academic Policy. On the other hand, many of the WE group argue that the most effective way of getting action on the forthcoming reports will be to submit them through the Student Association's SCAP as the representative voice of the students...
...months ago, some 30 students at the Graduate School of Education christened themselves the "Woeful Educators" (WE). The school, they argued, is not preparing its students for teaching in cities, nor providing them with consistently good supervision as student teachers, nor encouraging enough communication between specialists. Their answer was to form a group of student committees to find...
They have had little to be woeful about since. Dean Sizer has welcomed all of WE's committees; two student-run seminars have been set up; the Ed School Student Association has won representation on two faculty planning committees and will soon set up a Student Committee on Academic Policy...
...week found itself reeling under a scandal bridging two continents and of proportions not felt since the Dreyfus Affair at the turn of the century. It has strained ties between Paris and its onetime protectorate, Morocco, exposed France's security forces to charges of either dark collusion or woeful ineptitude, and forced an angry Charles de Gaulle to admit to the world that the much-vaunted probity of his Fifth Republic is badly tarnished...