Word: grammars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporters from bureaus across the country were deployed to seek out and interview teachers, professors and fellow students of Lyndon Johnson. Houston Bureau Chief Ben Gate made the Texas rounds, interviewed the President's former teachers in grammar school, high school and college, and spent a day talking with the citizens of Cotulla, 70 miles from the Mexican border, where 20-year-old Lyndon Johnson taught the fifth, sixth and seventh grades for a year. A key source for the story and a key force in the education of L.B.J. Howard Mell Greene, 78-year-old retired professor...
...House is forceful evidence that its occupant recalls his own school days with singular relish and vividness. Before he turned to politics in 1932 at the age of 24, Lyndon Johnson was a not-to-be-ignored student in half a dozen schools and a teacher at three levels: grammar school, high school and college...
...take a much higher proportion of scholarship students, is determined to fulfill Labor's goal to rid education of the so-called "eleven-plus" examination that in state-run schools forces children apart at the age of eleven-the top group streaming off to the academically superior "grammar schools," and the rest going on to conventional secondary schools. He will also implement Wilson's decision to open no new universities for the next ten years and instead to pour money and talent into expanding the existing ones...
...universe through science. But progress is slow. A rigidly fundamentalist approach to doctrine and discipline dominates Islam outside the cities. Moreover, it was only last year that physics, medicine and engineering courses were introduced at Islam's best-known university, Al Azhar in Cairo. In West Africa, Moslem grammar schools do little more than teach children enough Arabic to read the Koran; when one group of Moslem women in Nigeria last year set up a Western-style secondary school, they had to hire as teachers two Christians...
Funnel Function. This places unusual demands on the junior college, which often runs honors courses for gifted students at the same time that it offers remedial courses in English grammar and mathematics to salvage the lower-ranking high school graduate. And in its unique function as an educational funnel, it must counsel its students on which of the three broad paths each is best able to follow...