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...average student Scarsdale presents an already fiercely competitive system. From the ninth grade on, pupils are constantly spurred by reminders of the admission hurdles which lie ahead. Teachers not infrequently employ the threat to mark infractions on a student's "college record" as a disciplinary persuader. Gradually through a student's four years the pressure of getting into a choice school builds up until it reaches a peak of tension in the winter and spring of his senior year. There seems to be, in general, too much of a stress laid on achieving college admission...
According to present plans, Chavez will use some type of accompaniment for the lectures. However, no decision has yet been made whether to employ an entire orchestra or only a piano...
...Unfortunately, Massachusetts laws may force us not to employ people whom we want to employ," he continued. "If this tendency is not reversed, much harm may result to prospective employees who have disorders which are not disabling but may become so in the future...
...union's fear is that video taping will largely replace live broadcasting from studios and the I.B.E.W. crews that such broadcasts employ. They further worry that the taping will be taken over by outside companies that do not employ I.B.E.W. technicians. Negotiators for CBS and the union began wrangling in Washington at week's end, with a federal mediator on hand to keep them tuned in to each other...
...changes most principals mentioned: stiffening of math and science courses, special programs for gifted students. Some of the schoolmen are scrambling hard to reach a now fashionable orbit: "We are going to employ a more competent science instructor...