Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classroom Matheson usually throws in a supply of good, sound horse sense: never bet on anything unless the odds are at least 5 to 2; stay away from the Daily Double ("the Daily Double is loaded with pigs"); wait until the second half of the afternoon's card, when the races include tested and proven animals; keep away from two-year-olds ("no one knows what they can do"). The battle may not always be to the strong, or the race to the swift-but that's the way to bet. "Be satisfied if you find as many...
...intention of plowing under the football team, concedes realistically that to attain distinction, a university needs endowment, and good football teams stimulate endowment giving. But in putting the accent on "distinction," he plans "a strong academic program," library expansion, and increased discussion of controversial subjects in the classroom. A Phi Beta Kappa himself, he also has a special goal: to raise Maryland's academic standing so that, like more than 150 other colleges and universities, it will be qualified to award Phi Beta Kappa keys...
...trends of American education [Aug. 2]. He has voiced what perhaps many of us teachers are afraid to admit to the public ... Let's face the fact that we are no longer educating in the much-needed liberal sense. In attempting to counteract this situation in my own classroom, I have been met by an almost overwhelming opposition. Even my high-school seniors feel that an injustice is being done them if exposed to broader ideas than those rigidly laid down in the textbook...
Schools and colleges are sponsoring a growing number of adult-education classes. When the school season begins this fall, TIME's Education Department has been asked to inaugurate another service: the extension of our classroom program to include this field of education...
...like a hot scent to a coon hound. When Lawyer Paul Blanshard-whose bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power launched him on a career of Catholic-needling-learned that the children in his own town of Thetford were getting a weekly half-hour of nonsectarian religious instruction in the classroom, he promptly went into action. Blanshard formally asked Education Commissioner A. John Holden Jr. to notify all Vermont's schools that "the teaching of religion in public schools as part of the regular schedule of instruction" was unlawful and must be stopped. Last week Vermont's board...