Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whittle's plan to introduce commercial television into the classroom has sparked considerable controversy. "I think it's appalling and greedy," says Arnold Fege of the national PTA. Whittle counters that the venture will not only inform students about current events but also provide schools with valuable hardware to increase learning opportunities. "The equipment we install has enormous secondary benefits," he claims...
...boom is being fueled by fatter teacher salaries and efforts by many states to speed up the certification process. As recently as 1983, only eight states allowed full-time staff teachers to be hired without an undergraduate degree in education or previous classroom experience. In the 1987-88 school year, some 2,500 teachers in 24 states were trained through alternative certification programs...
Many of them, in fact, make considerable sacrifices to move into the classroom. When Tom Carlyle decided to become a teacher, he quit his job as a manager in a Manhattan publishing firm and invested $10,000 in a one-year program for career changers at Harvard's School of Education. Since 1986, he has been teaching high school math in the New York City public schools. His $30,000 salary is $5,000 less than he made in the private sector -- but $9,000 more than he would have made teaching math five years ago. Carlyle...
EDUCATION: The new lure of the classroom...
...hope that students, faculty and staff in the College use available opportunities outside the AWARE week agenda--staff meetings, senior common rooms, table talks, classroom discussions--to join in this community effort by holding an activity, lecture or discussion adressing some aspect of racism or ethnocentrism," Spence wrote...