Word: hotchkiss
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...Soviet Strategic Arms Limitation Talks from 1973 to 1979 and subsequently turned his observations into a 1979 book, Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT II (Harper & Row; 319 pages; $15). His fascination with Soviet-American relations goes back to his teen-age years, when he studied Russian at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn. A student of Russian literature at Yale and then at Oxford, Talbott worked as a 1969 summer trainee at TIME's Moscow bureau, and has since returned to the Soviet Union more than a dozen times on reporting assignments. In 1970 and 1974 he translated...
Winnick's introduction includes a brief but adequate summary biography of MacLeish, providing a necessary framework for the letters themselves. Arranged chronologically, they constitute a flowing narrative with only occasional gaps or seams. The story begins as young Archive leaves Glencoe, Illinois, to prep at Hotchkiss; a few letters from MacLeish's parents to the school's headmaster, the only ones in the collection not written by the poet himself, bear witness to their son's homesickness and general unhappiness there. In the letters he wrote at Yale and as a field artillery officer in France in 1918, a somewhat...
...state supervision of their curriculum and teachers. Ministers, teachers and parents of the Bridgeport Baptist Academy and the Sheridan Road Christian School, both near Saginaw, had charged that attempts by the state's board of education to supervise curriculum and teacher qualifications violated their religious freedom. Judge Ray Hotchkiss agreed, ruling that the board, by imposing its secular standards of education on religious schooling, "interfered with plaintiffs' constitutional right to freely exercise their religion." Said Hotchkiss: "This court fails to see a compelling state interest in requiring nonpublic schools to be of the 'same standard...
...issue of teacher certification turned out to be more of an embarrassment to state officials than to the Christian schools. Education experts could not agree on which standards the Christian teachers needed to follow, nor could they prove any link between certified teachers and good education. Noted Judge Hotchkiss, a former public school teacher: "The over whelming evidence shows that teacher certification does not ensure teacher competency and may even inhibit it." Since each student who leaves a Michigan public school to attend a Christian academy deprives the local school district of about $2,000 in state aid, the judge...
Michigan officials intend to appeal Judge Hotchkiss's verdict. Says Assistant Attorney General Richard Gartner: "The state now has no process to approve non-public schools." Part of Michigan's compulsory education law says that parents must send children to state-approved schools. According to Gartner, there is now a legal doubt as to whether the compulsory attendance requirement is legal...