Word: classroom
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While interpreters can help students better understand what goes on within the classroom, in social settings the students are on their...
Brenda Schertz, an information specialist atthe Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hardof Hearing, says that being a deaf child in a classroom of hearing children is isolating...
...about the same as the average married man's." While it's hard to tell whether this is good news for the President or bad news for average married men, the real danger for Clinton is that what had once been mostly confined to the back of the national classroom is now up at the chalkboard giving lessons. The problem for the President isn't that Leno, Bill Maher and Conan O'Brien are talking about his sex life night after night (luckless David Letterman was in reruns last week), it's that Ted Koppel, Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts...
...Authorities identified 170 people--some in a town 15 miles away--who were exposed to the mercury as it moved from school lockers to kids' bedrooms and local businesses. Eight homes were contaminated so badly that they had to be evacuated and emptied of most of their furnishings. A classroom was splashed with mercury, as were a restaurant and a convenience store...
...piece "Amistad is important. Discuss" distorted the facts about the study guide my company developed for the film Amistad [ESSAY, Dec. 29-Jan. 5]. The guide was written not by publicists but by editors of this company, which has almost 20 years' experience in creating classroom materials. It was designed as a supplement to--not a substitute for--the social studies curriculum. We ask students to explore the difference between historical drama and historical scholarship and include a comprehensive bibliography. The response from educators has been overwhelmingly positive. DOMINIC KINSLEY, Editor in Chief Lifetime Learning Systems Stamford, Conn...