Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asking for the moon. We just want a gymnasium and enough classroom space," John A. Gilbertti, a member of the Fundamental School's relocation committee, said yesterday...
Parents apparently suffer few illusions, however, about how much effect their frowning will have. About three-quarters approve of classroom discussions of sex relations even before high school, and more than three-quarters think parents are doing "the right thing" in instructing their own teen-age children about the use of contraceptives. Still, they keep hoping. When asked at what age it is "permissible" for a single young man to start having sex, 34% said he should wait until marriage, and 26% were not sure. Forty-two percent thought young women should wait until marriage, and 24% were not sure...
Declining performance. After more than a decade of vaunted "innovations" ? free-form "open classroom" programs, flexible mod ular scheduling, enough electronic gadgetry to make some schoolrooms look like Mis sion
...look at what has gone wrong inside both school and classroom, TIME correspondents visited three U.S. high schools that are not afflict ed with the intractable problems of core city schools. One is in Medford, Mass., a Boston suburb. One is a small-town school in Coos Bay, Ore. One is a middle-size school in Iowa City, Iowa. All are fairly representative of that historic backbone of America's public education system, the public high school. A tale of three cities...
Coos Bay: The Classroom Blahs...