Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Climate of Opinion. Louisville's Carmichael has been preparing for integration almost from the day he took the superintendent's job in 1945. "We really started getting ready for it then," he says, "because integration is more than simply mixing two races in a classroom. It is the creation of good human relations throughout the community." A native of Alabama (and a cousin of Dr. Oliver C. Carmichael, president of the University of Alabama, where the Autherine Lucy riots occurred), Superintendent Carmichael had climbed steadily but unspectacularly through Southern public-school ranks, arrived at Louisville convinced that segregation...
...question buzzed insistently through the mind of the young Jewish chemist as he hung on the adventures of Russian Explorer Ivan Papanin: Where did he find drinking water in the arctic? After the lecture, Alexander Zarchin shouldered his way to the front of the classroom at the Leningrad Technical Institute and got a deceptively simple answer. "We melted icebergs," explained Papanin...
...help meet the crisis, says Handlin, the U.S. can fall back on such devices as classroom TV and the use of lay assistant teachers. But the problem will never disappear until the U.S. has raised salaries ("Teachers are the only occupational group whose real earnings have actually fallen since 1940") and changed its whole attitude toward a profession that is too often caricatured as made up of frustrated Our Miss Brookses. Meanwhile, "makeshifts" will have to do. We can only minimize the damage, maintain standards as best we can for the time being, and lay a foundation for future recovery...
...might be expected, some foreigners are utterly bewildered by the informality of U.S. schools, and a few Americans grow restive in the strict foreign classroom. But in general, the exchange teachers make the most of their year...
...thirds of all the victims were under six years old-meaning that they had not been among the 110,000 schoolchildren who got free Salk shots in classroom clinics before vacations began. Of the five dead, three were under six, one was 28, one 34. Twenty-two of the victims had been vaccinated against polio, but most had had only one shot of vaccine, instead of the ideal three spread over seven months...