Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past few years there has been an increasing amount of discussion of possible statistical differences in I.Q. between races in the research literature, the popular press and the classroom. These differences have been advanced by some as explanations of a variety of social ills ranging from unemployment to ghetto living conditions. It has appeared clear to many of us that it is important to have wide public discussion of the arguments and issues involved by informed workers in several fields of science...
This hapless group-which contributes, on the average, two students to every British classroom-compared unfavorably with the "ordinary" children in the sampling in virtually every way-physically, intellectually and socially. Some outstanding contrasts...
Leslie Thomas, director of the utility division, and Robert Stewart, energy conservation coordinator, said the unprecedented winter voltage reductions will affect lighting in offices, classroom buildings and dormitories, as well as Harvard's heating system...
Nixon or no Nixon, there ain't no peace anywhere except, perhaps, in that Skinnerian box called classroom. In fact, to start to live reality one should assume the existence of a wartime atmosphere similar to what was once called the Cold War, providing the setting for our entire political economy. Know only that the pace of so-called peaceful world development has accelerated even as the costs have risen, and realize the lower and middle classes are being publicly asked and politically pushed into grudging support for the effort here at home ("pay any price, bear any burden...
Saraceno reported classroom attendance was off by more than 50 per cent yesterday, but said that enthusiasm for the strike...