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...brute force "number crunching." Says Yale Physicist D. Allan Bromley: "We've become lazy because of our digital computers. The Soviets don't have easy access to good computers; they do a lot more analytic mathematics in their heads." The Soviets are also strong in other "blackboard" sciences, like astrophysics and cosmology, where absence of up-to-date instrumentation is not critical to success...
...Chicago a third-grade teacher wrote on the blackboard: "Put the following words in alfabetical order." During the weeklong teacher strike last winter, many Chicago parents were appalled by what they saw on television news of schools and teachers. Recalls one mother: "I froze when I heard a teacher tell a TV reporter, 'I teaches English...
...Mental Health, what emerges from the familiar litany of teacher complaints is that administrative headaches and even physical assaults on teachers can be psychologically less wounding than the frustrating fact that teachers feel unable to do enough that is constructive and rewarding in their classrooms. Whether it is blackboard jungle, red-tape jumble, a place of learning or a collective holding pen for the hapless young, the modern classroom, teachers claim, is out of teachers' control. Some reasons...
...better than a control group. Sentence combining can be used at all age levels. A program called Success, developed at Duke, teaches second-and third-graders how to read and write using vocabulary from newspapers. Before writing their own paragraphs, they compose paragraphs together, with the teacher at the blackboard acting as secretary...
...moving to larger quarters in the basement of the Methodist Church a block away. Once there, Kalal starts looking for an outlet for his projector in back of the dark oak podium. But nowhere is there a three-prong outlet. Kalal, slightly ruffled, dispatches someone to find a blackboard. "I'll have to play this by ear," he says, opening the meeting. "I'm Jim Kalal, your temporary chairman, and this is your neighborhood caucus meeting. I guess we're a large neighborhood...