Word: classroom
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...case, Gingrich's ambitions never stopped at the classroom. "You've got to go from teaching to implementing. I'm one of the implementers," he contends. The son of an Army officer, Gingrich had his eye on elective office even before he had finished work on his Ph.D. in history at Tulane University. After unsuccessful tries for a House seat in 1974 and '76, he entered Congress with the class of 1978 and had soon founded the Conservative Opportunity Society, a group of right-wing Young Turks. In 1981 his 19-year marriage to his high school math teacher Jacqueline...
...early September it seemed that all of this political energy, all of these diverse views and earnest debates, would translate into a memorable election season. Come November, the undergraduate community would become a hotbed of activism, with the classroom theory and the political newspapers turning towards the present. The races in Massachusetts would serve as the context for passionate debates about what Harvard students want in their leaders and for America...
These books are not meant to be read so much as cited. Sometimes there is a CD-ROM version of the Fat True Book in which you can see, in three sparkling dimensions, the kindergarten classroom where the hero of the biography first learned how to double-knot her shoelaces...
...children through the cross fire of South Central Los Angeles was too harrowing. With ruthless budgeting, they managed to pay for private schools for six years, but tuition was just too high, and they were not satisfied with what it bought. So the couple converted their basement into a classroom with three desks, bulletin boards and two computers. Now their children get dressed every morning as if headed to school and are required to report to the basement by 9 a.m. Brad, who doesn't start work as a Federal Express delivery man until 3 p.m., handles most...
Chief among the critics of E.A.I. are members of the Baltimore and Hartford teachers' unions, who are, among other things, unhappy over the dismissal of Baltimore's experienced (and unionized) classroom aides. E.A.I. replaced them with recent college graduates who receive low pay and no benefits, and who tend toward high turnover. "You train them and they may be gone in six weeks," complains a teacher. Some opponents are unhappy with E.A.I.'s policy of mainstreaming nearly all special-education kids into regular classes -- a measure they regard as a cost-cutting trick that shortchanges some kids...