Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Being an American Parent" [Dec. 15], that today's pampered youth yearn for discipline; finding it withheld at home, they often seek it in the classroom. Although it's In to complain about assignments and deadlines, most students, not yet ready for independence, find security in this kind of regimentation. Many a class troublemaker who harasses his teacher is selfconsciously pursuing a reprimand. I recall one unruly college freshman who came unbidden to my office with a plea that I shall never forget: "I know my behavior is lousy. Can you make me stop?" Yes, I probably...
...Yablonsky, whose books on teen-age gang life in New York (The Violent Gang) and the Synanon cure for drug addiction (Synanon: The Tunnel Back) have been widely praised for telling it like it is. Yablonsky could tell it, because he lived with the people he studied-and his classroom presentation at San Fernando Valley State College this month earned him an "outstanding teacher" award over 9,000 of his colleagues in the California state colleges. Shortly before he won the award, however, Yablonsky-who is now studying the hippie movement-was subpoenaed to testify at the marijuana trial...
...other major recommendations of the committee are directed toward increased instructional use of computers. At present, Dix says, "I would guess that about 80 per cent of the money spent here is for research, and most of the remaining 20 per cent for classroom use, probably most of that by the Business School." The committee asks that "the instructional use of computers should have a priority equivalent to that of the research uses...
More and more companies have taken the initiative and are carrying on their own training programs. Lockheed Aircraft has started a VIP (for Vocational Improvement Program) training course at its Sunnyvale, Calif., space plant that combines job training with classroom work in mathematics, encourages class members to move up from starting jobs as factory helpers to skilled occupations...
Procter & Gamble's highly regarded training program features planned personal coaching instead of the large classroom instruction and menial tasks often associated with a training program. The company's unique approach pays off with some first-class management material...