Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calgary, the Joyces of the classroom are known as "homesteaders"-able Canadian students who refuse to work. By 1954 they had become so numerous that mild-mannered Superintendent Robert Warren decided that something drastic would have to be done. He consulted his school board, finally put through the now famous Calgary Plan. In 1955 only ten shirkers were dropped. But as the plan became more firmly established, the number rose...
...chemistry, only one out of four has taken a year of physics. There is a current shortage of more than 8,000 high school science teachers and yet-of the 5,000 graduates prepared to teach science last year-2,000 went into industrial jobs rather than the classroom...All the 48 states now promote the teaching of home economics, agriculture and distributive trades. Only eight states, however, had special directors or units last year to foster and improve the teaching of science and mathematics...
...more apt to find himself sent back to school with a pack of pencils and instructions to sharpen his potential. The new corporate fad-or what one executive calls "a fever sweeping industry"-was started to combat the shortage of executives by trying to force-feed talent in the classroom instead of waiting for it to grow naturally in the office. In 1957 alone, industry sent an estimated 300,000 executives back to school in hopes that they would learn to be better bosses. The phenomenal increase in corporate collegians has sparked a high-level, academic argument: Just how much...
...Stunned into sudden-and at times, hysterical-awe of Soviet science, they could scarcely find words harsh enough to say about themselves or their campuses. "Throughout the entire country," noted Columbia University's President Grayson Kirk, "the subject of education has moved out of the quiet of the classroom into the arena of bitter controversy...
...classroom level, one innovation is the "contract correcting" study, in which persons such as housewives with good academic backgrounds correct themes at home, freeing the teacher for other work...