Word: bunchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...profession, though. More important than better pay, say disgruntled teachers, is the need to improve the prestige and power of the job, to restore its practitioners' self-respect. Says A.F.T. President Albert Shanker: "We give people poor salaries, then we lock them in a room with a bunch of kids and instead of letting them teach a subject they know-Shakespeare or math-we have them doing everything else, teaching 'Living,' 'Loving,' 'Life Adjustment.' " Maintains San Francisco School District Administrator Carlos Cornejo: "We don't give teachers the recognition they need...
...teaching students how to find information and how to use it to solve problems." Says Marc Tucker, director of the Carnegie Corporation's project on information technology and education: "What a marvelous thing it would be if kids and teachers could use computers to answer a whole bunch of 'what if questions: What if the Black Death had spread half as fast? What if there had been a quarter as much money in circulation in 1475? What if the climate had been 10° colder as the Euphrates was turning into desert...
Considering the philosophical, pedagogical and financial problems ahead, the supposed computer revolution in schools seems barely under way. "What you have now," says Alan Kay, chief scientist at Atari, "is a bunch of people attempting to teach violin who have had a six-week course in what the violin is and who have never heard violin music before...
...picker and chooser of ways and means, he turns a neat trick on a bunch of Chinese by arranging to ferry them over from Cuba to the Keys, accepts their money, then kills their leader and abandons the rest. Then his luck turns bad. A flier at rum-running results in the confiscation of his boat, the loss of an arm. So the way is paved to the last, most desperate venture of all-an attempt to provide a getaway, in a borrowed boat, for a quartet of bank robbers fleeing from a hold-up at Key West. Morgan knows...
...Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn drove past him near Wilmington, Del., State Trooper Joseph Shannon stopped her "because she looked too young to drive a car." Later he declared: "I soon found out she was not a kid. She was a regular little wildcat. She shrieked . . . and generally acted like a bunch of wildfire...