Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Education Association, which numbers some 225,000 (four-fifths women) of the nation's 1,000,000 school teachers. But teachers, who in many communities are expected to be politically as well as physically chaste, seldom raise their voices outside the classroom. Consequently they are perennially startled at the bold talk that springs up at the N. E. A.'s annual conventions, attended chiefly by the outspoken fringe...
...schoolteachers, principals and superintendents are conservative. So are the textbooks they use. So are the businessmen who run the boards of education that run the schools. Yet today the U. S. has a decidedly liberal Government, voted in by the products of its conservative schools, and classroom and campus resound with students' criticisms of the social order. Flummoxed by this paradox, businessmen are getting increasingly hot under the collar about "visionary" professors. The institution they attack most often is the fountainhead of "progressive" education, Columbia University's Teachers College, which they call "The Big Red University...
Hicks was quoted as saying that "I am a Communist. I expect to remain a Communist. But if I know my Harvard boys, my personal opinions or beliefs won't matter a bit. I might add, I never used the classroom as a propaganda agency, and I don't intend to start...
...School Lighting, was based on a study sponsored by the Illuminating Engineering Society and American Institute of Architects. It declared many schoolchildren had so little light for their work that they suffered from eyestrain, irritability, headaches. Even on a bright day children in the darkest part of a classroom may get only five foot-candles,* one-twentieth as much light as those near the windows, and on a dark day illumination of their desks may drop as low as one footcandle. The investigators claimed tests showed children did 28% better in reading when they had a minimum of 20 foot...
Yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, English 70, which usually meets in Sever 11, found itself excluded and forlornly wandering around the Yard in search of a classroom. William K. Chandler, Instructor of English, was pursued by the importunate almost to Winthrop House when he refused to meet his dispossessed class...