The activities included annual visual assessment and nutritional screening camps for all students; an anonymous letter box for students to voice their questions and concerns (Speak Out Box); classroom-based life skills training and individual counselling for students.
Students can access online virtual microscopy courses at any time and place, allowing them to view slides that would have traditionally been restricted to the slide box and classroom.
You may be wondering why there was a cardboard box in the classroom.
The following week, teachers will distribute the screening survey (two pages, including questions about sleep problems, eligibility criteria and family contact details) and cover letter to parents, who are asked to return the completed survey to a secure deposit box in the classroom within 2 weeks.
"We are looking at learning spaces as a whole, with the realisation that children don't just learn in classroom boxes but in any space," says Armitage.
If the reason for funding a chair in conservative thought and policy is to correct a political imbalance, it is not a reason any university should take seriously until there is more than anecdotal evidence that ballot-box performance tracks classroom performance.
The centerpiece of the Williams Center is the 400-seat theater/concert hall and also contains a versatile art gallery, a 100-seat black box theater, and classrooms and studios for music and art.
UNICEF has already made available more than 240 Schools-in-a-Box – each containing classroom materials including exercise books, pens and paper for up to 80 students – and recreational kits, containing sports and games equipment.
For example, children still collect soda cans and box tops to buy classroom equipment.
It all looks suspiciously close to what the educationalist Dylan Williams calls "black box" syndrome: of the classroom (the "box") as a mysterious realm beyond the grasp of distant policymakers obsessed with inputs and outputs.
DeLillo breaks off and starts again: "It's a school day, sure, but he's nowhere near the classroom, the box of forty blank faces".
