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...been proven to reach out very effectively to all student constituencies,” said Buell. “He’s keen to teach and he’s had great success teaching, from freshmen to a graduate school level,” he said...
Menand will have ample opportunity to scratch that academic itch at Harvard: in addition to a graduate seminar on “Art and Thought of the Cold War,” Menand is to teach an undergraduate lecture course on the James siblings next spring—and Buell said he had expressed a desire to teach “something in the Core as quickly as possible...
...pass the exams in 7 of 12 AP subjects, those in urban school districts pass only 1 in 12. The problem is that many of these schools are pushing students into AP classes who aren't ready, and some of the schools don't have enough teachers who can teach college level work well...
...Their students' lack of preparation for more sophisticated work forces AP teachers to make a Hobson's choice: teach all the high-level curriculum, which may mean moving too quickly for some students, or slow down the presentation of material so that no child is left behind. The result: AP classes that vary as widely in rigor as low-fat foods do in calories. At the selective Wilson Senior High School in Washington, each AP English class read at least 10 novels this year, but those at Bell Multicultural, in which about 70% of students speak English as a second...
...Zeebob's is the kind of place where you're not surprised if the waiter sits down at your table. Raymond, a tall, impressively hirsute young guy, brought out the drinks, and waited a full 10 seconds before inviting himself to join me. He wanted to teach me some Goan dialect. "You must know susegado," he said. "Maybe it's the reason you came to Goa." Susegado sounds like a Portuguese word but it isn't in the dictionary. Seeing Raymond's easygoing smile, I was able to guess the meaning: chilled out. After another round, Raymond promised to take...