Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the 20th century, the sternly preachy anthologies called McGuffey's Eclectic Readers faded out of the American classroom. Ever since, many elementary-school teachers have been stumped by the problem of instructing pupils in moral themes without committing the modern sin of sermonizing...
While in the building, Elsman had taken pictures of a Negro student, Jefferson Thomas, sitting with white students in a classroom. Outside, Elsman explained that he had never taken a picture in his life, but a representative of Life magazine quickly produced two $100 bills to purchase the contraband film. The Michigan reporter lost little time in turning his camera over to four Life photographers for unloading...
...quietly in 1951 when the Communists imported an Italian named Pacifico Montanari to reform the republic's schools. Montanari, 36, is an ardent apostle of Celestin Freinet, a freewheeling French innovator who claims non-Freinet schools teach by the medieval notion of rigid authority, argues for a classless classroom, with the teacher as merely a "master companion" who discusses with the pupils what and how they should study. Montanari installed the Freinet method in all of San Marino's elementary schools except one: Mother Veronica's St. Clare's Convent...
Archbishop Rummel has blinded himself to is the difference between the order of essences and the order of existence. In other words, a moral decree from His Excellency's dais is one thing and. practicing the decree in a classroom of hostile races is another thing...
Bites of Coal. For Jimmy Hoffa the Terrace Room of the Town House, the leadership of 1,400,000 Teamsters and the classroom at Harvard represent a long, hard climb. He fought every step...