Word: classroom
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...practice), between children's spontaneity and formal pedagogy. In the past, we have been overly suspicious of their spontaneity." Now Fontanet says he hopes to build a new balance between purely intellectual study and the development of children's sensitivity -"we have to create libraries in every classroom and to make poetry a fundamental part of primary school learning." Perhaps, he suggests cautiously, the children who have been drilled in the verse of Lamartine and de Vigny might enjoy "modern" poets like Guillaume Apollinaire...
...soft-spoken scholar, Van Doren launched his career as an educator at New York City's Columbia University in 1920. Though he wrote more than 50 books of verse, fiction and literary criticism and in 1940 won a Pulitzer Prize for his spare, Frostian lyrics (Collected Poems), the classroom remained his focal point for 39 years. Among the students influenced by his gentle Socratic discourses were Novelist Jack Kerouac and Poets Thomas Merton, Allen Ginsberg and John Berryman. Though stunned by the 1959 scandal involving his son Charles, who had been fed answers on the TV quiz show Twenty...
...American territory of Main Street, insulated and uninformed, passed into fiction forever. Said a first-grade teacher in Cleveland last week: "I remember cutting out the photographs when I was a child and bringing them into school to my teachers. And as a teacher I brought LIFE into the classroom and had the children cut out photographs. It was a teaching tool...
Some programs offer classroom instruction, others on-the-job training, still others a mixture of both. They aim to place graduates in a wide variety of jobs, including auto mechanic, shoe repairman, nurse's aide, hotel bookkeeper. Coordination and supervision are spotty at best. Houston-area officials of the Labor Department's Manpower Administration do not even know how many programs are operating locally; they estimate twelve...
...nearly all high school dropouts and average a fourth-grade proficiency in math. Half of them have had run-ins with the law, and 30% admit to having used hard drugs. Among other things, the foundation offers a JUMP (for Joint Urban Manpower Program) course that gives classroom instruction in architectural drafting to the youths who are placed simultaneously as junior draftsmen with 21 architectural and engineering firms. In the foundation's last class, 19 trainees started, 17 finished and eleven are still working as draftsmen; another trainee has gone on to college...