Word: classroom
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Candidates also lamented the effects of the discrepancy in parental resources between schools. At some neighborhood schools, more affluent parents are able to contribute greater amounts to classroom funds...
...fair that students in North Cambridge have computers in every classroom, while kids in Area 4 are taking home photocopies because there aren't enough books," Patterson said...
...some point in their education, they had a teacher in the classroom who believed every single kid was capable of excellence," she said. "That's great, but how do you get teachers like that...
Saadia M. Pekkanen, who received a doctorate from Harvard in 1992 and was also a TF for Moravcsik, agreed that he makes himself very available to the students. "He encouraged interaction both in and out of the classroom," she says...
...Nicholas Lemann describes the rise to power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup d'etat" that the SAT accomplished in the 1950s and '60s, when it booted the Wasp elite by substituting classroom skills for the old-boy network as the key to college admission...