Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predict the cost this year, but needs are obvious. Latest estimate of the public school classroom shortage is 156,000 against 132,400 a year ago. The defeat of President Kennedy's aid-to-education bill left many a school system in the lurch-although Congressmen who opposed the bill last week voted to help their own "federally impacted" districts, where the loss of such long-established aid would be political suicide. One clue to possible taxpayer reaction is the fact that last year 23% of all U.S. school-bond issues were rejected, including 37% in Michigan...
...Education Sterling McMurrin called this the "basic" problem facing U.S. schools in 1961. "It is a national scandal,'' said he. "that large numbers of our teachers are inadequately prepared in the subject matter they teach.'' More pay might help. U.S. public schools last year paid classroom teachers a record average wage of only $5,215, and the variation between states was such that no Mississippi teacher got more than $5,500 and no California teacher got less...
...teachers' salaries. To sweeten an allotment of $325 million for school construction, congressional leaders passed the word that the funds could also be used to pay off debts for past construction-a ploy calculated to charm Congressmen from the South, which has had a wave of classroom construction...
...classroom of Geography Master John Beacham. 32. who was to lead the trip, had been decorated for months with Norwegian flags, travel posters and fjord-toothed maps of Norway. The library copy of The Young Traveler in Norway was dirty and dog-eared from long use. For months, the boys had been working hard at odd jobs to save $76 apiece, the price of the trip. Last month, Dennis Field, son of one of the school's cleaning women, reluctantly gave up his place because he could not afford it. Quentin Green and another boy promptly applied...
Cleared Throats. Emerson (capacity 50) is totally dedicated to the self-help theory. In 16 months, its eight-man faculty has not had a payday ("The faculty supports the college"). When one highly qualified French teacher complained about dirty classroom windows, she was told: "You know we don't have a window washer here, baby. Wash them yourself." She quit on the spot. Nor does Duskin worry about policing students. Eight of them have set up their pads in a cabin outside town-in what combination he cares not. Says Duskin: "You can't lock girls...