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...Teachers will be striking in September, October, November, December, January, February ..." That was the prediction last week of Terry Herndon, executive director of the National Education Association (see box page 51). Indeed by week's end hundreds of thousands of the nation's public school teachers were on the picket lines. The militant American Federation of Teachers estimated that as many as one-fourth of its 440,000 members could be on strike this month. The larger (1.7 million members) N.E.A. predicted that there could be from 150 to 200 strikes this fall−compared with 106 last...
Donald E. Pullman, a home-improvement contractor, is facing a herculean labor. In the dead of several nights, someone dumped some 8,000 worn-out automobile tires on his one-acre building lot in Herndon, Va., near the Fairfax-Loudoun county line. The authorities threatened Pullman with a jail sentence or a $300 fine for operating an illegal dump unless he quickly got rid of them...
...James Herndon (Bantam) Getting Back Together by Robert...
...deep animus toward "athletic bastards who stick together," see Bouton, Meggyesy, et al. And as for my hatred of those teachers who overinstruct but undernourish, yelling "digression!" in Oral Expression every time a student gets interesting, the romantic critiques of Kozol and Herndon have left me winded...
...that he ever says just how things might be. His whole point about teaching, and writing a book about schools and teaching, is that it's all improvisation. Herndon refuses to number his points and draw lines of methodology. He only provides some riotous scenarios in which you'll find the intelligible course of action unstated, but more than obvious. Without formalizing a philosophy here. James Herndon is espousing one which goes: keep loose, fly kites and be nice to salamanders and lizards, but while you're reading this book, man, keep an eye out for bees flying...