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	Phillips Exeter Academy:Academics
		Since the arrival of 'Harkness tables' on campus, the principal mode of instruction at Exeter has been discussion around an oval table.
		The Harkness table is central to both the Exeter classroom and the Exeter curriculum.
		As the physical table itself implies, learning at Exeter is a cooperative enterprise in which the students and teacher work together as partners.
	www.exeter.edu /pages/aca_harknesstable.html (291 words)

	Phillips Exeter Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Harkness" classes are Exeter's trademark, and feature heavily in both the school's identity and day-to-day life; many schools have attempted to adopt similar methods, although at no other school is the "Harkness" method so heavily incorporated into the teaching philosphy.
		Harkness Club - An unofficial 'society' of students who have engaged in illicit activity involving one of the school's many Harkness tables; considered a very elite and very dangerous designation.
		The Harkness Warrior is the first person to interrupt another student, disagree simply for the sake of disagreeing, and speak endlessly with no discernible point in order to boost his or her participation grade.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phillips_Exeter_Academy (3152 words)

	Encyclopedia: Harkness table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Harkness table refers to a style of teaching used most notably by Phillips Exeter Academy, as well as other American boarding schools, including Phillips Academy, and The Lawrenceville School.
		The name comes from the oil magnate and philanthropist Edward Harkness, who presented the schools with a monetary gift in 1930.
		In 2004, Saint Paul Academy and Summit School received an anonymous donation to put 19 Harkness tables in language, history, and English rooms.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Harkness-table (508 words)

	Editorial: Woodsman, Spare that table! Date:10/15/99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Harkness was a philanthropist who was especially committed to academic innovation.
		In the 1935-36 academic year, Harkness provided the School with the necessary cash to reconfigure the rooms of Memorial Hall and the Fathers Building to allow his new tables to be installed, and he paid a large part of the construction cost for Mackenzie.
		If students refrain from writing on the tables, they are showing that they have a genuine respect for the intellectual environment produced by the Harkness tables.
	lvweb03.lawrenceville.org /thelawrence/99/10_15_99/3.html (357 words)

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		Pioneered by philanthropist Edward Harkness in 1930 at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harkness envisioned a classroom in which students were active learners- a place where they shared ideas with each other as well as with their teacher, and every student spoke up and was involved.
		And thus the Harkness Table was born: an oval table around which students and teachers sit.
		Harkness teaching means that the students must accept great responsibility for their learning, and with that responsibility comes great maturity and insight.
	www.holychildrye.org /faculty/campmin/Social%20Justice/Alternative%20homepage/harknessmethod.htm (413 words)

	Harkness table -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Harkness table refers to a style of teaching used most notably by American boarding schools, including (additional info and facts about St. Paul's School) St.
		The name comes from the oil magnate and (Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being) philanthropist (additional info and facts about Edward Harkness) Edward Harkness, who presented the schools with a monetary gift in 1930.
		Harkness learning can vary - most notably between (Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)) liberal arts subjects such as English, and scientific subjects, like math.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Harkness_table.htm (367 words)

	Exeter News-Letter News: PEA pillar grounded in 'goodness'
		Gary said PEA's Harkness Table style of teaching is one of the school's prominent strengths.
		The roundtable seminar method was suggested in a 1930 letter written by philanthropist Edward Harkness to former PEA principal Lewis Perry.
		Harkness said learning isn't a linear or one-way process, but an exchange between students and instructors.
	www.yorkweekly.com /2002news/exeter/08202002/news/20088.htm (844 words)

	Edward Harkness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born in Cleveland, Ohio, one of three children born to Anna Richardson and her husband Stephen V. Harkness, a harnessmaker who invested with John D. Rockefeller, becoming the second-largest shareholder in Standard Oil.
		His elder brother Charles W. Harkness died in 1916, and in 1917 Anna Harkness gave $3,000,000 to Yale University to build Harkness Quadrangle in his memory.
		In 1918 Anna Harkness established the Commonwealth Fund by a gift of $20,000,000, and Edward Harkness became its president.
	www.kiwipedia.com /en/edward-s--harkness.html (207 words)

	Harkness table
		Harkness table refers to a style of teaching used most notably by Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in Exeter, NH founded in 1781 by John Phillips.
		The name comes from Edward Harkness, who presented the Academy with a monetary gift in 1930.
		"Harkness learning" can vary, most notably between liberal arts subjects such as English, and scientific subjects, like math.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/harkness_table (378 words)

	Educating with the Harkness Table, by Tyler C. Tingley
		Harkness identifies a table you will find at the center of every class both literally and figuratively.
		Harkness Tables are oval and seat a dozen students and a teacher, but they are much more than a place to sit.
		At the Harkness Table classmates learn by discussing their thoughts and ideas rather than just by taking notes.
	explorersfoundation.org /glyphery/183.html (123 words)

	Lawrenceville School
		The School's residences are modeled after the house system common to British boarding schools.
		However, unique to the School is the famous "Harkness Table." These are large, wooden oval tables that take the place of individual desks in most classrooms, and whose communal nature is said to enhance the learning experience.
		Most of Lawrenceville's student houses are called the "Circle houses" for their location on a landscaped "circle" designed by the 19th-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who is most famous for designing New York City's Central Park.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/l/la/lawrenceville_school.html (381 words)

	Teaching Mathematics with the Harkness Method
		All classes at Phillips Exeter Academy are conducted in a discussion setting around a table with an average of 12 students.
		(For more information on the Harkness plan see the Academy's Home page.) In mathematics classes this allows for a unique learning environment and Exonians are exposed to problem solving in a very student-centered, discussion-based classroom.
		Then the teacher and the students have a discussion at the Harkness table if the answers to the problems are right and what other way of solving the problems are possible.
	math.exeter.edu /dept/harkness/index.html (560 words)

	Phillips Exeter Academy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Harkness" classes are Exeter's trademark, and they are considered the world's finest method of teaching-- so effective, in fact, that schools from around the world have attempted to copy the method.
		However, Exeter still remains the home of Harkness teaching and education.
		No where else are Harkness classes taught with such dedication or so central to the identity of the institution.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Ph/Phillips_Exeter_Academy.htm (2813 words)

	joannejacobs.com: Rows vs. tables (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Students "work harder and are less disruptive if they sit in rows rather than in groups around tables, according to researchers at the University of Birmingham.
		A similar study in a special school for children with behavioural difficulties found that on task time doubled in rows and disruptions were reduced to a third of their former frequency.
		One private high school in our area is adopting the "Harkness Table" aproach for all of their classes.
	www.joannejacobs.com /mtarchives/015084.html (1073 words)

	(hyper)textuality.org
		I spent today in a conference at the lovely Rocky Hill School in East Greenwich, RI which was quite interesting in ways which, sadly, have very little to do with my job.
		The conference was aptly named "Technology and the Harkness Table" because it was exactly that.
		We got to see a building that was literally designed around technology and the Harkness Table mode of teaching and saw how wonderful it is when engaged teachers, supportive administration, sensible architecture, and funding all come together.
	www.textuality.org /categories/events.html (718 words)

	What boarding schools use the Harkness method? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Its a method of teaching, with an oval table, and one end is sortof chopped off, that's where the teacher sits.
		Oh yea and the harkness table, I find it the most revolting thing because I usually have history and english in the morning and I want to go to the corner of the room and fall back asleep.
		Mercersburg Academy uses the Harkness table in English, History, and the majority of foreign language classes.
	www.collegeconfidential.com /discus/messages/99/68153.html (482 words)

	Phillips Exeter Academy -- College Counseling Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ust as teachers at the Harkness table create a student-centered learning environment, PEA counselors foster active and open-minded collaboration with students.
		In this supportive environment, students learn to identify their goals and interests, to manage a complex and stressful process, and to make healthy and confident decisions about higher education.
		Fundamentally, we believe that each student should control the self-evaluation, research, and application writing that is essential to good college selection.
	college.exeter.edu /c3-cco/welcome.pl (71 words)

	Harkness Learning Is Still the News
		Here he contemplates Harkness teaching, past, present, and future.
		Further endorsement of the Bennett style subsequently appears in the spring Bulletin of 1995: Chauncey Loomis ’48, and former trustee, in “The Harkness Table Revisited” has George Bennett’s example in mind when he argues that the agenda of a class should be the consequence of its ruminative energy.
		They begin, as Loomis says, to be “ambushed by their own intelligence,” and so to fulfill the calculation of the teacher: namely, for those who are learning to make the process of that learning their own agenda.
	www.exeter.edu /publications/exeter/fall_99/harkness1.htm (482 words)

	Exeter News-Letter Local News: New PEA science center is state-of-the-art
		Every classroom has the same basic design, a Harkness table, lots of white board, a projector and lab tables.
		A glass-topped table harbors the live marine specimens students gather on weekly field trips.
		The Harkness plan, which originated at PEA in 1930, calls for an oval table in each classroom, placing students at the center of the learning activity by allowing teachers and students to work together as partners.
	www.yorkweekly.com /2001news/exeter/e10_12b.htm (904 words)

	The Financial Aid Initiative
		A good debate in today’s Harkness classroom still demands that Exeter students be highly intelligent and that they speak from a variety of perspectives.
		Conversation around the table would be greatly diminished if Exeter students were all derived, for example, from the same socio-economic, ethnic, or religious circumstances, or from the same regions of the country, or if they all possessed the same academic interests.
		Exeter’s fundamental premise is that it should be equally open to the brightest students from all backgrounds, and no matter what their financial means.
	phillips.exeter.edu /ei/initiatives/financial.html (682 words)

	Phelpssciencecenter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This well-known private preparatory school uses a teaching method focused on the "Harkness Table," a 7' x 11' oval table that seats 12 students and a teacher who present and discuss their work in a participatory format.
		The program for this new science center was to adapt the Harkness method of teaching to the science curriculum.
		Movable platforms supporting tables wired with power and data allow for teaching seminars.
	www.centerbrook.com /Project%20Profiles/Phelpssciencecenter.htm (407 words)

	Printable Document-Electric Library
		These tables have encouraged and supported the notion of the teacher as the facilitator for the past 70 years.
		The Harkness classroom, in spite of its age, may well point the way to the future of classroom design.
		The essential idea is to combine the computer and video monitor with flexible two-person tables to create a classroom for facilitation that is within the budget of most schools.
	www.techconsult.org /CURRICULUM/TECHINTEG/21ST%20CENTURY%20DESIGNS.html (4554 words)

	AHL: Chauncey: Executive Retreat
		The meeting environment at Laurie House is exemplified by the Harkness Table.
		Originated at Exeter Academy in 1931 to create an innovative way of teaching, the Harkness Table encourages discussion and fosters a sense of partnership among participants through its collaborative seating arrangement.
		During your stay at Laurie House, all the amenities of Chauncey Conference Center are available to you, including Solomon Dining Room, the Chauncey Bar and Lounge, championship golf and indoor and outdoor recreation.
	www.aramarkharrisonlodging.com /properties/chauncey/ch_exec.html (192 words)

	Phillips Exeter Academy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The school's secondary motto, Non Sibi, located in the sun, means "not for one's self." Exeter graduates may, if they wish, receive a class ring with the school seal with the text "Sigill Phillip Exoniensis Academiae - Nov Han 1781" surrounding.
		Since a 1930 gift by Edward Harkness, the school's principal mode of instruction has been by discussion around an oval table (known as the "Harkness table").
		Phillips Exeter has been co-educational since 1970; prior to that time, it was an all-boys school.
	www.portaljuice.com /phillips_exeter_academy.html (203 words)

	Re: Enhydra: BOLD Table Element
		I have an HTML table that I am dynamically populating w/ data from a database.
		It is not an attribute of a table cell.
		We are using XMLC to generate our pages, but in looking at the generated code, I see you'll want to modify your code like so:
	mail-archive.objectweb.org /enhydra/2001-04/msg00226.html (153 words)

	The Masters School
		Upper school biology teacher Elisabeth Merrill introduced parents to the tablet PC, a two pound computer with a touch-sensitive display that allows users to input data by writing directly on the screen, much as you might write in a notebook.
		The advantage of the computer is that it enables teachers to stay at the Harkness table and remain part of the group instead of having to go up and write on the flboard (the notes can be projected on a screen as they are written).
		These electronic class notes are then stored in a public folder, accessible to all students, a great asset to students who may be having trouble keeping up with note-taking in class.
	www.themastersschool.com /parents/pa_notes_1c.htm (221 words)

	The Wired Harkness Table (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Harkness tables are approximately 7' x 11'.
		With today's wireless technology, we are no longer wiring Harkness tables for data.
		Our tables were created by several different specialty furniture carpentry shops.
	www.lawrenceville.org /~bfreitas/Human/tsld023.htm (106 words)

	NEA: Jobs and Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It's pretty obvious that the accountability folks don't mean to supplant the famed Harkness tables at Philips Exeter with test-prep.
		In other words, nose-to-the-grindstone, teach-to-the-test schooling is for all poor and working-class students, apparently, but for wealthy students rote learning is only one alternative approach, and not, incidentally, the approach you use with highly able students like those who can hold their own around a Harkness table.
		The "teach them how to learn" folks want to empower kids growing up at some remove from these easier paths to higher education, higher career placement, and higher incomes and lifestyles.
	www.nea.org /teachexperience/bi031120.html (897 words)

	OCS - Academics
		Classroom teaching practices involve discussion circles in all content areas; the Oracle Charter School will adopt or modify the Harkness Table Method of education.
		The Harkness method of education was first developed at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and is typically used at private college preparatory schools.
		The Harkness method traditionally uses large, oval tables at which students and the teacher sit to engage in inquiry-oriented discussion, allowing instruction to become a "cooperative enterprise in which the students and teacher work together as partners".
	www.oraclecharterschool.org /academics/coreValues.shtml (275 words)

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