Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courses a potential teacher must take in college to get a public-school license. The result, he charged, is that colleges are forced to teach insipid "Mickey Mouse" courses that turn out uneducated teachers. Conant's solution: abolish the state rules, free colleges to upgrade teacher training, make classroom performance the test of certification...
Hamilton's desire to go to medical school could be served best by attending Georgia. Therefore his personal battle, his wish to "make those crackers sit up and take notice," was fought in the classroom. Charlayne was not so singleminded. She wanted to observe people observing her. More gregarious than Hamilton and lacking his drive, Charlayne chose to live on campus instead of with a Negro family...
...students in schools all over the world, from Arctic huts to the National War College. In the U.S. alone are 300 military schools teaching 4,000 courses, from the three-R level to the Ph.D. Even the raw recruit now spends a third of his time in a classroom; the general gets the equivalent of two or three years of graduate study. To keep everyone learning off-duty as well, 33 correspondence schools provide 2,500 mail-order courses to 1,000,000 servicemen and servicewomen around the globe...
...centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that coalition of conscience ineradicably changed the course of U.S. life. Nineteen million Negro citizens forced the nation to take stock of itself-in the Congress as in the corporation, in factory and field and pulpit and playground, in kitchen and classroom. The U.S. Negro, shedding the thousand fears that have encumbered his generations, made 1963 the year of his outcry for equality, of massive demonstrations, of sit-ins and speeches and street fighting, of soul searching in the suburbs and psalm singing in the jail cells...
Apparently distressed by all the national publicity, or perhaps undergoing a change of heart, Dr. White called Mrs. Cowan in and they had a "very pleasant informal conference. We are pleased that she will return to the classroom tomorrow." And that is where Mrs. Cowan is well pleased to leave it, too: happy to be back teaching...