Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Classroom survival is the lesson...
...Bronx. All but the main entrance is sealed; in front of it is a security guard, ready to turn back anybody who tries to enter without proper identification. Inside, five more guards equipped with walkie-talkies patrol the halls and cafeteria in the 60% Hispanic, 39% black school. Most classroom doors are locked after classes begin, and study halls, once a favorite spot for fights, have been shut down. The dingy lockers that formerly lined the corridors have been removed. Explains Principal Chester Wiggan: "The kids used to store drugs in them and set fires." Four trailers equipped as classrooms...
...mutual admiration was struck just a few feet from the mahogany Venus in the middle of the restaurant. Helped along by a couple of glasses of Almaden Chablis, the two former professors were soon intently but good-naturedly debating their respective views as if they were back in the classroom...
...advantages of having a young president," he has said, "is that he can remember a time when he was a non-tenured faculty member." He enjoys teaching so much that he resigned as master of Yale's Ezra Stiles College because it was cutting into his classroom time. Despite his reputation as a tough grader, his courses in epic poetry and Renaissance literature are favorites among students...
Each school day about 20 children, ages five to twelve, bound up the steps of an old brownstone in Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area. They settle quietly in a small classroom crowded with battered desks. Maps and vocabulary lists festoon the walls; books overflow the corners. At 9 o'clock sharp, the tall, no-nonsense teacher begins to stride up and down the rows. "What did Socrates say?" she questions. "The uneducated man is like a leaf blown from here to there, believing whatever he is told," chorus the children. "What did Marcus Aurelius tell...