id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-004434 A Professor at Notre Dame Sparks a Quiet Revolution in How Chemistry Is Taught | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 2320 86 59 Mr. Jacobs’s ability to keep those students enrolled in 113-114 and to push up their grades — they are now twice as likely to get an A — has garnered the attention of both the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and his colleagues at Notre Dame, who have begun to pattern other science courses on the techniques Mr. Jacobs introduced to the campus. Mr. Jacobs says that students do not enter the class with much confidence in this method: “Students don’t think the students around them are good resources — they’re paying good money to be taught by a professional chemist.” cache/news-004434.html txt/news-004434.txt