Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hero of Touches is a 43-year-old college English teacher named Jeff Cooper who is fretting about a full professorship. Jeff (Robert Lansing) comes home from the classroom one day and tells his wife Katy (Barbara Bel Geddes) that he is falling in love with a nubile student. Being the rare wife who is the first to know does not prevent Katy from being cataclysmically shaken by her husband's startling don't-kiss-but-tell confession. Bel Geddes beautifully conveys outward bravado and inner terror...
Serious as the effects may be this school year, they promise to be even worse next fall. The early closing of schools would mean that the board must cancel leases on 25 rented classroom buildings; they may not be available next year. Teachers and other personnel may move away or take other jobs. Unless amended by the legislature, existing state aid will be reduced because the distribution formula is based on how many days the schools are in session this year. Federal aid, school officials fear, may also be jeopardized. Thus, far from solving its financial problems by closing early...
...that's the only way to improve," he says. "The curriculum has to account for the black student's interest--where he comes from." The contacts forced Monro to redefine his traditional theories of teaching and success. Good teaching became a readiness to scrap traditional ideas in favor of classroom gold--the approach that works." And success became any evidence of improvement-- "I work with the individual and I only want him to move up from where he starts." Monro points out that by the time Miles students graduate, their academic performances have no correlation to their scores in high...
Beyond that point in the freshman program, education becomes "a double transmission of skill and awareness," and the tone of Miles College becomes part of the classroom experience. The "classroom gold" which Monro has uncovered is a reading list of black authors--Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Booker T. Washington and others. "Forget all these ideas that Hamlet is culturally useful," Monro says. "The students need to digest and think about these men and hammer out their feelings in discussions with their peers. Every young black person has awareness built into him. One thing...
...workers claim the University's complaint is invalid because a teaching assistant who replaced Zuckerman on December 8 allowed the workers to remain briefly in the classroom...