Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moved by Communism Today: A Refresher Course (Aug. 6), a reader suggested that Essay "should be required reading in every high school classroom." As a result, our Education Department sent reprints to social-studies department chairmen in 18,400 public high schools. Some 800 college radio stations and campus editors have signed up to receive copies of Essays that have particular pertinence for the undergraduate. Another large area of interest is the world of business. An anthology* of 20 Essays that ran before Jan. 1 drew appreciative response from the business executives to whom it was sent. Characteristic...
...Films, Inc., has been their "impossible logistics." Teachers have had to request films far in advance from distant distribution centers, use them upon arrival even if their class was not ready, ship them back immediately. Heavy, complex projectors have had to be hauled from storage, set up in the classrooms, operated skillfully. Films have been "an intrusion in the classroom rather than a help," says Howell...
...careful compromise: they rejected the inclusion of students on faculty committees--pointing out quite correctly that not even inexperienced faculty members are invited to serve--and disapproved of student testimony in decisions of tenure. But they went on record as favoring some form of student evaluation of teachers' classroom performance. And they called for the creation of more effective machinery to transmit criticism from students to administrators and Department chairmen. They even suggested the establishment of "ad hoc courses"--seminars on topics such as Vietnam, which would be determined at the beginning of each term--to build the teach...
...compares his new post to that of a clinical professor in the Med School. He will teach education theory in the classroom while continuing his work in the field...
...Make a Difference. Bel Kaufman knows firsthand how a kid can get lost in a classroom. A granddaughter of Humorist Sholom Aleichem ("the Yiddish Mark Twain"), she was born in Berlin, lived until twelve in Russia, where her father practiced medicine and her mother wrote short stories. Her family then moved to The Bronx, where she was thrown into first grade with six-year-olds and learned English "by osmosis." She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hunter College, earned an M.A. in 18th century literature from Columbia, taught in every type of New York City high school, from those...