Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Spring the HCUA submitted to the Administration a report recommending improvements in certain classroom facilities, such as lighting and ventilation. The Administration complied speedily and well with many of the recommendations. But lest it forget, the Administration should be reminded that not everything has been accomplished: since William James lectured there, the opportunities for lighting in Emerson D have vastly increased, and deserve to be exploited...
...officials; top military officers were ordered to sleep at military headquarters so that a check could be kept on their whereabouts. With the Buddhist opposition lulled for the moment, Saigon's student population feebly tried to raise protests against the government. Pelted with chairs and desks thrown from classroom windows, government troops closed many of Saigon's schools, threw nearly 1,000 students into jail to cool off. It seemed likely that Viet Cong agents inspired much of the demonstrating...
There is plenty to improve. With more pupils than Baltimore has people, New York has high schools so overloaded that some of them have five daily shifts. "Lunch" begins at 9:45 a.m. in cafeterias filled with students "stored" there until a classroom empties. Last year 57,500 children got only four hours' daily schooling...
Paper Curtain. New York's worst affliction is the paper curtain that separates teachers in the classroom from administrators at "Livingston Street," or Board of Education headquarters, an ugly box of a building in Brooklyn that once housed the Elks of the region. Livingston Street is awash with able, well-intentioned administrators, but most of them live by the numbers and have lost touch with the troops in the trenches. Teachers have to punch time clocks, use rigid "lesson plans" that often do not match student needs. They find principals too busy to talk-and principals in turn find...
...married graduate students. A new $2,200,000 medical building will house the Duke Center for the Study of Aging plus a diagnostic and treatment unit. Earlier this month Duke awarded a $1,200,000 contract to build a 188-ft., 350-ton oceanographic research ship-a seagoing laboratory-classroom that Duke will share in a cooperative venture with about 25 other universities and colleges...