Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a Negro teacher in Mr. Novak, a Negro secretary in East Side, West Side, Negro students in the classroom of The Patty Duke Show and on the campus of Channing. On The Outer Limits, a Negro recently played a would-be Pierre Salinger, press secretary to a presidential candidate. Another Outer Limits show will have a Negro astronaut. All three networks now have Negro newsmen. There is a Negro girl in Jackie Gleason's chorus. A Chicago TV station has a Negro weather girl...
...widening employment opportunities and ending segregated housing, but there is much that educators can do to help now. Through its Graduate School of Education--which regularly cooperates with local school systems--the University could send experts to various "problem" schools in the North and South to improve curricula and classroom methods, and to provide special help for students with educational deficiencies. Harvard could undoubtedly attract foundation money for pilot projects in slum schools, similar to New York City's "Higher Horizons" program. And such an Ed School venture has ample precedent: if the University can provide educators...
...only to visit a college with completely restrictive social rules to realize that male and female students who care for each other will make do with whatever they've got--the woods, a river bank, a motel room or borrowed apartment, the back seat of a car; a locked classroom and bare floor, if nothing else is available. It is a happy rule that men can no longer legislate away desire. They can only temper it with physical or mental discomfort or, if the night is cold, with a creeping fear of influenza...
Most radically, Conant proposes that states sweep away the maze of requirements for teachers certification and grant admission to the classroom to graduates of any institution willing to take on the responsibility of training teachers. All the state would require for certification is a B.A., endorsement by the particular college or university, and evidence of supervised practice teaching--one requirement on which all educators agree...
Producer Neuman says that later shows will break the rules more freely, deal with such pressing problems as cheating, rebellious teachers, race prejudice, and at least one ten-minute drill in the classroom. This may not keep the boys away from Combat, but if Actor Franciscus can hold the girls, Mr. Novak will graduate with honors...