Word: edu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deciding what courses will be given and how, teachers share responsibility for the school's tone. Friedman's classes stress "dialogue" and "interaction of teacher and student"--terms which he savoured continually while discussing Buber's edu-educational theory. But another, more traditional teacher, might make his course as conventional as he chose. And more and more, as the faculty expands, the college acquires the latter breed...
...into VIASA. a new international carrier whose ownership is split 55%-45% between the government and private Venezuelan capital. With a profit of $100,000 so far, VIASA expects to wind up this year firmly in the black. Chiefly responsible is VIASA President Oscar Machado Zuloaga, 42, dynamic, M.I.T.-edu-cated general manager of the Caracas Electrical Co. Machado, who runs the airline on the side for a salary of $8,000 a year, has turned LAV's old losses into profits by cracking down on bribes and padded payrolls and by negotiating a reciprocal jet-leasing agreement under...
More than any other nation, the U.S. has made local control the key fact of its school system. The result is what James B. Conant calls a "Noah's Ark" of edu cation - a happy confusion of 35,300 in dependent school systems, in which stand ards vary so widely that an A grade in one school may be worth a D in another...
...forces that influence school boards include regional accrediting agencies, teach ers colleges, textbook publishers and the National Education Association. Specific regulations accompany present federal aid, such as those long set for vocational edu cation under the Smith-Hughes Act. The great foundations pour millions into educational TV and radical school designs, prodding schools to improve. Even that stout defender of local control, James...