Word: impactions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Federal Impact. The most direct cause of the new shortage, ironically, is the sudden proliferation of federal programs designed to aid education. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, aimed mainly at helping kids from poor neighborhoods catch up to their more affluent peers, created 60,000 extra fulltime teaching jobs for this school year. These teachers are, of course, still teaching, and in tasks where the schools are weakest: small-class remedial work in the three Rs, guidance counseling, tutoring. But they leave vacancies in regular classrooms...
Inverted Prestige. While the sudden impact of federal programs can be largely blamed for this year's troubles, long-range pressures are also squeezing the teaching profession. College graduates who choose teaching are turning in increasing numbers to jobs with the greatest prestige, those in colleges and high schools, leaving a growing grammar school gap. High school teachers tend to move up to junior colleges, which employ more than 65,000 as compared with 26,000 five years ago. Contending that elementary teachers have a far more profound influence on students than college teachers, James E. Russell, secretary...
...take a year off for training at Yale Law School. During that year he came to believe that "many of the problems which plague the University of Mississippi and our state stem from a provincial outlook-our students are accustomed to examining every question in the light of its impact upon Mississippi culture rather than taking a broader view...
...turn, and slowly slumped back against his wife. Then the President's head jerked; a ghastly pink spray flashed around his head, then disappeared as he fell toward Jackie on his left. The first shot was not fatal; the second was. The time between the two bullets' impact was between 4.8 and 5.6 seconds, said the commission. Connally, too, had been badly hurt: a bullet slammed into his back, tore across a rib and out his chest, shattered his right wrist and entered his left thigh...
...Impact of Exhibit...