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...board members, the accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand, which is conducting an audit of N.A.A.C.P. officials, is examining records that show that Gibson ran up more than $1 million on his N.A.A.C.P.-paid American Express card over the past nine years. Among Gibson's expenses: several plane tickets for Marva Smith, a South Carolina woman known inside the organization as Gibson's ``special friend''; extra hotel rooms at N.A.A.C.P. conventions, at which Gibson had already been provided with free accommodations; and $126,000 for limousines. In addition to having his credit-card bills paid by the organization, Gibson received...
...Chicago, Marva Collins has brought order and learning -- and national acclaim -- to Westside Preparatory School with her own brand of rules. Chewing gum is out: "If they insist on chewing gum, we have them do a paper on the etymology of the word gum." Any cocky youngster who walks into Westside with a defiant swagger, or wearing gang jewelry, gets special treatment: "I put my arm on their shoulder and say, 'Darling, is your hip broken?' Or, 'You're going to have to take out that earring...
Chalk up another true-to-life role for Actress Cicely Tyson. She has already starred in television biographies of Abolitionist Harriet Tubman and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. This time Tyson plays a Chicago superteacher, Marva Collins, in a TV movie to be aired next fall. Collins has coaxed children of Chicago's rundown Garfield Park area from near illiteracy to discussions of Roman history and Michelangelo. She also coached Tyson in classroom technique, and gives the actress high marks as a student. Says Collins: "Cicely takes her acting as seriously as I take my teaching...
Your article on Marva Collins' one-room school in Chicago [Dec. 26] was an exciting story about a simple approach. It confirms a basic truth that most educators have lost sight of: it is dedicated people and consistency, not fancy equipment and complicated systems of instruction, that make the difference in education. Small continues to be beautiful...
Having students repeat memorized passages or answers to questions suggests that Teacher Marva Collins had better re-study what Socrates was all about. Socratic questioning doesn't call for pat, memorized answers. Why do dedicated "back-to-basics" teachers feel that they must always swing to the opposite side of the current educational pendulum? Can't they combine the best of both worlds...