Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students during the late 1970s and early 1980s is being replaced by the realization that racism is alive and seething in the hearts and minds of the American populace. This awakening comes from the stark realities of being Black in America. It comes from being called nigger in the classroom and the boardroom rather than just in railroad stations and at bus stops. It is the realization that a middle-class or upper-class or educated Black is still, in the eyes of white America, just Black. A Harvard degree does not take away your color...
...tele-classroom has been especially valuable in states with small populations and struggling economies. Last year, when 15 of the 28 students at Maine's Allagash High School protested the dearth of humanities courses, the University of Maine decided to fill the gap. This fall the university will offer more than 20 courses, including elementary French and algebra, to 23 Maine schools...
...education, geography has long been destiny. Crippled by limited staffs and tight budgets, rural districts have often found it impossible to offer courses such as Russian and physics that are considered standard by their more cosmopolitan counterparts. Now all that is changing, thanks to the arrival of the electronic classroom. By using interactive video, even small, disadvantaged schools are gaining access to the most sophisticated instruction available, and all without losing the human touch...
...formats and course offerings are as varied as the sponsors, which include federal and state governments, universities, public-television stations and commercial networks. Unlike Whittle Communications' Channel One, however, which beams news and ads into schools on regular television, the electronic classroom enables instructors and pupils to hear and interact with one another much as they would in any normal setting. But the visuals are still one-way: students can see the teacher, but not vice versa...
...first and most obvious set of difficulties arises as an immediate result of alcohol abuse. These short-term problems include conflicts in social relationships at home or at school, poor performance in the classroom, alcohol-related injuries and legal or disciplinary trouble resulting from acts committed under the influence...