Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year ago, the mammoth (207,000 enrollment) City University of New York began its innovative Open Admissions program, which guaranteed classroom space to any city applicant with a high school diploma and imposed a three-semester moratorium on academic dismissals (TIME, Oct. 19, 1970). The purpose of the program was to provide an educational second chance for graduates of the city's mediocre high schools who otherwise would not qualify for college. To critics among faculty, alumni and outside educators, the experiment seemed like a formula for disaster. Many agreed with Vice President Spiro Agnew, who warned that...
...Laurini's noncredit seminar huddles Thursday evenings in a classroom that the community college rents from a local high school. Tuition is $15 for ten lessons. She requires pupils to memorize the colors and emblems of every National Football League team, assigns each student a game to report on each week. Mrs. Laurini diagrams plays on a blackboard like a coach, explains subtleties and details by using instant replays that she videotapes while watching the previous week's games...
...Supreme Court's 1954 desegregation decision, events have zigzagged dramatically, requiring close coverage. Last year our cover on "Retreat from Integration" concentrated on the politics of busing. This week we report the latest installment of the story and evaluate the impact of busing on what happens in the classroom-and in the home...
...question now worrying Northern white parents is: What are the results of busing? The answer is not totally comforting. A study of 700 high schools conducted last year by the Syracuse University Research Corporation showed that classroom disruption was "positively related" to integration especially in schools with a higher proportion of black students than black teachers. Experience has shown that where strong discipline does not go hand in hand with respect for minority cultures, the common scuffles of school life can easily explode into violence. In Pontiac, the number of robberies reported in schools during the first three weeks...
Aside from being Governor-not necessarily an advantage for his children when they are in the classroom -Holton is different from most parents in his ebullient optimism. On his office In box is pasted the slogan, TODAY IS OPPORTUNITY DAY. DO SOMETHING, and twelve-year-old Woody is awakened by his father each morning with the call, "It's opportunity time." His wife Jinks is also enthusiastic, and is trying to get more black parents into the schools' P.T.A.s. In the same situation, other parents and other children might not have had the same happy experience. Still, when...