Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students continued to demonstrate in front of administration buildings, while others attended workshops on various subjects sponsored by student groups and picketed in front of classroom buildings...
Phoenician Women. "For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek," said Virginia Woolf, "because in our ignorance we should be the last in a classroom of schoolboys, for we do not even know how the language sounded..." This is the annual Greek-play-presented-in Greek. People who will understand the Greek already know much more than I do about the play. For those of us without Greek, past experience with these productions has led to a belief that they can be beautiful, fascinating experiences even for those who understand nothing directly, especially if you read...
...were swiftly absorbed, off the streets, out of the makeshift sidewalk shelters and shanties. They moved into all of Danang's 100 schools (8,000 packed into a single high school) and, with no direction from government authorities, quickly organized leadership committees, nominating a senior person in every classroom. Though some emergency rice arrived from volunteer relief groups, the refugees' survival was largely in their own hands. Somehow it worked - for a while...
...after three years is $14,800. A policeman can retire at half pay after 20 years on the force, and probably collect more money in pension before he dies than he ever did in wages. A high school teacher can insist on no more than 34 students to a classroom. In the past decade, though the city's population has declined, the number of its employees has risen 38%, to 340,000 - and the average of their salaries has crept up 10% each year...
...third study, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare and announced last week, showed that public school students' reading levels have been falling since the mid-1960s. Whatever the cause, it is clear from all three studies that the cure lies in the classroom...