Word: classroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like the travelers in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, who were drawn by an inexorable fate to their crucial place in time and space, his victims fell as they went about their various tasks and pleasures. By lingering perhaps a moment too long in a classroom or leaving a moment too soon for lunch, they had unwittingly placed themselves within Whitman's lethal reach. Before he was himself perforated by police bullets, Charles Whitman killed 13 people and wounded 31?a staggering total of 44 casualties. As a prelude to his senseless rampage, it was later...
...amendment, recognizing in part recent Supreme Court decisions restricting public authorities from authorizing school prayers, puts all prayer on a voluntary basis. But Freund foresaw the possibility that this would lead to more active participation by church groups in classroom affairs...
...like yoga and flowered bead making. The classes are limited to 15, the atmosphere is totally informal and there are no grades. The school's aim is to be a link between the housewife and the university. "Most housewives are afraid to resume their education in a formal classroom," says Lynn, "because they feel threatened by the bright-eyed 19-year-olds. The Village is a steppingstone, the first step for the woman trying to get out of the kitchen. We want to stimulate self-growth and human development...
...almost every standard-teacher training, library facilities, lab courses and classroom quality-separation of the races works out to the Negroes' disadvantage. Nationwide, in primary grades, there are 32 students in the average Negro classroom, 29 in mostly white schools. In secondary schools, Negro pupils are less likely to have a chemistry or physics lab; judged by nationwide test scores, teachers in Negro schools are educationally less qualified than those in white ones. Standard achievement tests show that by the sixth grade, a Negro in the metropolitan Northeast is 1.6 grades behind his white counterpart; by the twelfth grade...
...Horvitz doesn't come into the service, it's no skin off my nose. I don't care what he thinks he can get out of the military. What concerns me is what he thinks he can take into the classroom...