Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fuss about P.S. 41? Well, buying extra classroom materials is one thing; buying extra teachers is another. When directed toward items like staff salaries, educators say, private funds can widen the disparity between schools in poor neighborhoods that rely on government funds, and those in middle-class communities that can tap off-the-books parental money. Even some parent advocates got uneasy over the New York parents' brazenness. "The running of public schools should be the responsibility of the public through tax monies," said Lois Jean White, president of the national PTA. Other critics weren't so diplomatic...
...contrary, Pellegrini says she discourages sexual identity affirmation in the classroom. She calls sexuality both "an entry into the course and a departure...
...about coming out. It's about scrutinizing the construction of the identity. It's turning the gaze back on the entry into the classroom," Pellegrini says...
...bothered that this classroom has become a tribune for certain groups and clubs. It compromises the pure academics of the classroom," says Nicolay I. Siclunov'00, a member of the BGLSTA...
...applications of telecommunications technology that can be found anywhere in medicine today. In 1995 Kansas extended its network of high-speed telephone lines to reach Garden City specifically so that St. Catherine Hospital, a local 132-bed facility owned by the Dominican Sisters, could set up a compressed-video classroom and become part of the statewide nurse-practitioner program. "It breaks the isolation," says Doll, who sits in on her students' classes at the hospital. "It keeps us abreast of all the latest things...