Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Afros. In Anderson County, S.C., monitors found black students sitting on one side of the room for a high school history class, while the white students sat on the other, with a row of empty desks down the middle. Chalkboards similarly divided a classroom in Carthage, Texas. For recreation, the black high school students in Alexander City, Ala., had one gym, one black-and-white TV set and a small lounge with straight chairs. The white high school students had three gyms, two swimming pools, a color TV and a large lounge with sofas. In Tyler, Texas, black girls were...
Crisis in the Classroom, by Charles Silberman. A massive, thoughtful inquiry into U.S. schools concludes that education is almost always sacrificed to order and discipline...
When the funny man with the big round glasses comes bouncing into the classroom at Manhattan's P.S. 61, the sixth-graders burst into applause. "Hi there, poets," says Kenneth Koch. "How about a Christmas poem today?" He suggests all sorts of ideas: "Like what would the ocean do if it really cared about Christmas? Or the eagles, sparrows and robins-what would they do? The apes in in Africa, would they swing from the trees? Or Abraham Lincoln, would he shave his beard? The rain? The sun? And the people in Puerto Rico, or China...
Other calls yesterday involved classroom buildings, a science library, and a biology laboratory. As on previous occasions, no bombs were found...
Basic concepts are taught in a classroom brainstorming session called "Rescue in Space." The schoolchildren divide into two groups: eight astronauts going to Mars in two spaceships, plus ground-control crews responsible for the ships' air, water, food and living space. Once on Mars, one spacecraft breaks down. Given certain limitations, which the teacher reads from the kit's list, the challenge is to create and debate practical ways of bringing all the astronauts safely back in the closed ecological system of a single cramped spaceship...