Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classy middleweight boxer at the University of Virginia ('37). In later years Caplin's reputation was built on his record as a teacher (former pupils: Bobby and Ted Kennedy), authority on taxation and corporate law, and civic leader; he turned his Charlottesville basement playroom into an emergency classroom for schoolchildren during the "massive resistance" period in 1958, when Virginia closed its public schools. Long a proponent of tax reform, Caplin favors cutting upper-bracket income taxes to 65%, lower-bracket taxes...
...average-a level sufficiently elevated to allow him time to work on his defensive game, which by his own admission still needs improvement. Impressed by his earnestness, most faculty members have stopped hunting for flaws in McGill's performance, whether on the court or in the classroom. But Bill the Hill is under no illusion that he can relax in either place. Says he: "I've got to be good...
...using itsy-bitsy pedal cars. Why make motorists out of moppets of six and seven? "We chose them because they fit the only cars we could buy reasonably," a leader of the Rotary program disarmingly explains. Last fall the school installed a model traffic layout in one tots' classroom, and a half-acre complex of "streets" out on the playground. After the state police commissioner himself cut a ribbon to open the new highway, top Connecticut officials gravely watched as little Rockvillians played cops and rodders...
...parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Even there he did not last for long. Cried one professor after a few months of Student Schiele's tantrums and rebellion: "The devil himself must have defecated you into my classroom...
...public or private agencies--that would have the straightforwardness and influence of the Conant reports on high and junior high schools. These guidance reports, circulated to officials and the public, would make concrete recommendations hopefully calling attention to pressing educational problems. Such reports could deal with the use of classroom television; college admissions procedures for the increasing number of applicants; employee employer relationships in public schools, including certification, salary scales, and retirement; the physical fitness of the nation's citizens; and adult education, including the sponsorship of local lecture and concert series...