Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Organized two years ago by New York City's Urban League, the program operates on the premise that the dropout hustling a living on the streets has a native savvy that can be channeled into the classroom. In the past year, eleven major U.S. corporations, including Time Inc., have anted up $30,000 to $50,000 as sponsors. The money pays for the leasing and remodeling of a ramshackle storefront, teachers' salaries, books, and the expenses of street workers, who roam the ghetto, "rapping" (talking) with dropouts and actively recruiting them for the academies. In turn, the corporation...
...country with a crying need for technicians, Makerere is turning out more philosophers than engineers. Educators of all kinds are in short supply, but nearly half of the Makerere graduates who have been trained to be teachers refuse to enter the classroom, instead try to join the already ample civil service. In a country where only five in more than 1,000 youths attend college, quantity would seem to be as important as quality, but Makerere maintains a luxurious 8-to-l student-faculty ratio. Uganda's President Milton Obote, a Makerere graduate, has accused the university of being...
...perception and skills of others because they've been ne- glected. They need understanding and patience." She employed patience of her own in climbing to the top of N.E.A. She headed North Carolina's all-Negro N.E.A. affiliate and N.E.A.'s biggest division, the Association of Classroom Teachers (820,000 members), before her election last year as N.E.A. president. She took office at last week's convention in Dallas as the organization flexed its newly developed muscles in anticipation of some rough battles next fall for more teacher pay and power...
...diversions from duty, no athletic teams or fun-centered weekends, almost no extracurricular activities. Days and nights are occupied with grinding, hard, solitary work. Left largely on their own, given little direction by haughty teachers who are forever talking down to them, French students have become -in the classroom, at least-a sullen, silent and smoldering...
...result on many West European campuses, despite the continued poster popularity of Marcuse's grizzled visage, has been a swing away from his thought to a fresh classroom consciousness of Marx. In West Germany, where West Berlin's Neukölln factory quarters became so hostile to anti-Viet Nam demonstrators last winter that one was badly beaten, S.D.S. activists are trying to reconstruct workers with a missionary effort. Groups of students drop in on worker pubs, strike up conversations over checker matches, and gradually set up small groups that aim to determine their common anticapitalistic grievances. However...