Word: classrooms
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Shoulder to Shoulder. Another factor in classroom violence, says the committee, is overcrowded juvenile correction centers. In Washington, the juvenile reception home was designed to house 75 youths; it now holds 375. At the Philadelphia Youth Study Center, reports a committee investigator, rows of sullen boys often sit shoulder to shoulder all day on rows of wooden benches, getting up only for meals and a brief recreation period. With no place to put violent youngsters, authorities are forced to turn them loose-and compulsory attendance laws send them right back to school...
...program, "Vietnam in Classroom," is intended to instruct secondary school teachers on how to lead classroom discussions on the war. Joan Goldsmith, a former teacher of South Boston High School, is featured, creating a "dilemma situation," in which a group of South High students respond personally to the problem of draft induction...
...Vietnam in Classroom" is sponsored by the Graduate School of Education's Viet-nam Committee, in collaboration with station WGBH, Daniel Curaco, Ed. M. '70, Miss Goldsmith, and Berry, who is director of the media division of the Ed School library, conceived the original idea. They developed the program and produced it at the 21 Inch Classroom, a part of the Massachusetts Department of Education, in less than 60 hours. They expect to distribute the show nationally...
State Commissioner of Education Neil V. Sullivan, who earlier this fall told school superintendents and principals to encourage classroom discussion of the war. authorized a $2500 budget for the uncensored program...
...which definitely turned off Florida's Governor Claude Kirk Jr. "Kids are taught patriotism and morality in the classroom," he told a civic club audience, "but when they get home they see a television set with this dirty old lady...