Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of Harvard anti-draft students will picket classroom buildings on Monday morning. They will urge fellow students to stay away from classes and attend the service and rally. Divinity students will also attend and plan to give up their 4-D exemptions at the service...
Because it was organized late last week, class members will have to be resectioned and Evans' section disbanded. And there are physical problems in using the Lowell House Library as a classroom (wheeling in a blackboard, for instance)--problems which might be more severe in other houses...
...school board came up with a $135 million package of pay and benefits spread over 26 months, an $11.9 million increase over their original offer. It will mean at least $1,200 more for some 55,000 teachers. In frantic bargaining, the union won an extra weekly hour of classroom preparation time for teachers in ghetto elementary schools, but allowed its demand for more power over disruptive students to be turned over to a study committee. At week's end the union threatened to prolong the walkout when fresh disputes broke out over the contract wording of some...
...York dispute left Negro and Puerto Rican groups angry over union attempts to enforce more discipline in the classroom, and they threatened to bar the return of teachers at some schools-a move that would suddenly push the school board and the teachers back together as allies against such pressure. At the same time, the financial headache for the city was painful. Noting that other unions of city employees will soon begin contract negotiations of their own, Lindsay cried: "I don't see how big-city government is going to survive...
Despite a recommendation by a national advisory council that corporal punishment be abolished in the state primary schools, many British educators stoutly defend the practice as essential to classroom decorum. Of 3,000 delegates at a National Head Teachers Conference this spring, only two voted against caning; only one delegate did so at a national conference of schoolmasters. And a Gallup poll showed that public protesters are still outnumbered by those who favor the cane and strap. When the new school term opens this fall, British buttocks again will burn...