Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teacher of the art, Swarowsky, 67, heads the elite conducting classes at the Vienna Music Academy. He offers students the vintage Viennese musical heritage. He also offers a powerful intellect honed on studies in Freudian psychiatry and art history as well as music. And he employs a classroom method-unorthodox, strict and demanding-that has produced such successful practitioners as Los Angeles' Zubin Mehta, Madrid's André Vandernoot and La Scala's Claudio Abbado...
...about $250 million in new taxes (on beer, liquor, cigarettes and other sales). State officials argued that the new appropriations would provide teachers with an average increase of $1,340 per year. Despite this generous offer, the F.E.A. insisted that the funds would not provide any real improvement in classroom conditions; too much of the new tax money, the association says, was earmarked for noneducational expenses. The argument is probably academic, since Kirk has threatened to veto the bill because it calls for the new taxes without any provision for approval by voters. As expected, the teachers walked...
...21st CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "From Cradle to Classroom," Part 2, examines two projects that work intensively with economically and culturally deprived children almost from birth until they enter school: Syracuse University's day-care center for babies of working mothers, and the University of Illinois' nursery school, where there is a teacher for every five children...
...really relevant to their lives. Even New Haven's progressive new superintendent, John A. Santini, concedes that "what we do is waste kids' time-we've got to make school make sense to them." But the problem of high school violence reaches far beyond the classroom. It involves the rising frustration of life in the cities and the agitation of self-seeking adults demanding black (or white) power-compounded by the turmoil within teenagers as they grope toward maturity...
...impropriety of legislative forays into the classroom and the fruitlessness of such an ex post facto inquiry are compelling reasons for the legislature to ignore approval of the measure by the Education Committee. Furthermore, the moral and legal problems involved in draft resistance are still far from solution, and the implicit condemnation of anti-war activity made in setting up this commission is biased and premature...