Word: teach
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...Indianapolis. Having read a magazine article listing a selection of the best places in the world to avoid an atomic war, Jones took his wife and three children to one of them, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Belo Horizonte did not present many opportunities, however, so Jones moved to Rio to teach at the American school there. "Jim was no fanatic," said a woman who befriended him there. "He had no wild streak at all. They were just normal, rather naive and provincial Mid westerners. They led a simple life, and Jim's main concern was always for those people...
...from. A socialist and revolutionary ideologue who turned to Moscow for military assistance, the pragmatic Boumedienne also looked west for markets and technology. The U.S. has become Algeria's principal trading partner, buying oil and, more important, natural gas, while providing factories for consumer goods and training to teach Algerians to run the new facilities...
...tour the lecture circuit trying to persuade elementary and secondary schools to ease rigid rules and cut red tape. No longer. Despairing of reform within the nation's educational establishment, Holt has now decided to proselytize among parents, urging them to keep their children out of school and teach them at home...
...possible reforms involves setting new limits on the number of graduate students permitted to teach undergraduate tutorials. Current Faculty legislation imposes such limits, but this legislation--which requires that no more than 30 per cent of tutorials be taught be teaching fellows and no less than 30 per cent be taught by full-time faculty--has been ignored and unenforced since the date of its passage. A CUE study illustrates how flagrantly the departments are violating the Faculty legislation: during the 1976-77 academic year, teaching fellows taught over 95 per cent of the sophmore tutorials in Economics, English, Government...
...other proposals also promise to help improve the quality of education at Harvard. One involves encouraging professors to regularly attend--on a rotating basis--sections in courses that they teach. The other proposal advocates a reclassification on the rank of professors as a postdoctoral position with emphasis on teaching. Because there are so many qualified post-doctoral academics on the market, the University could hire such instrutors to teach many of the undergraduate tutorials currently taught by graduate students. Instuctors could teach specific tutorials concerning subjects on which they have specialized, avoiding the all-too-prevalent misfortune of having graduate...