Word: classroom
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...beds. Today, because of student demand, 96 out of 1,400 beds are seven-footers. If things go on as they are, added Wisconsin, future rooms will just have to be made bigger to accommodate the bigger beds. ¶ For those worried about the nation's much publicized classroom shortage, the American School and University had some cheering news: last year the U.S. spent a record $3,028,000,000 on school construction-a jump of $175 million over 1954. ¶ Reporting on British industry's annual hunt for fresh university graduates, a writer in the London Times...
...allowing Harvard to be turned "upside down" for the sake of the television production. The apology was in order--what covered the screen for ninety minutes was not only an inverted picture of Harvard, but a small and thus distorted view. The camera never focussed on a lecture, or classroom, and the few students and professors who did manage to appear were either outnumbered by deans and politicians or drowned out by announcers and alumni...
...University of Paris classroom an American Negro attending a meeting of religious leaders sat reading and rereading a cable that had just come from the U.S. The year was 1926, and for Mordecai Johnson, 36, the news that he had been elected president of Howard University in Washington, D.C. should have been cause for celebration. But, recalls Johnson, it was not: "My happiness on my trip was destroyed...
Five members of the faculty will join the meeting the next day to discuss the "Implications of Social Class Research for Classroom Teachers." The annual School Board Conference scheduled for March 23 will break up into three panel discussions to consider "The Gifted Child--Today's Neglected Student," "The Regional or Area School," and "What Is the School Committee Member's Responsibility to the Educational Program and the Community...
Iowa has, however, a program which attempts to eliminate these inadequacies. By administering IQ tests from first grade on, and comparing scores with classroom achievements, the educators can discover the student who is unmotivated. While IQ tests are very imperfect measures of ability, they can show who has ability and is not working...