Word: medford
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...City, Midwest Correspondent Anne Constable found that students and faculty at West High were so excited by the attention that they made TIME'S coverage the subject of a school-paper story. McGrath and Boston Correspondent Marlin Levin, who attended classes and talked to students and teachers at Medford High, experienced a similar reception. Says Levin: "Headmaster William McCormack opened the doors to us and said, 'Here it is, go where you want to go, write what you see. This, for better or for worse, is what...
...look at what has gone wrong inside both school and classroom, TIME correspondents visited three U.S. high schools that are not afflict ed with the intractable problems of core city schools. One is in Medford, Mass., a Boston suburb. One is a small-town school in Coos Bay, Ore. One is a middle-size school in Iowa City, Iowa. All are fairly representative of that historic backbone of America's public education system, the public high school. A tale of three cities...
...Medford High: Strife in the Suburbs...
...facilities at Medford High, located on a hill next to a woodland preserve, are superb. Eight interconnected stone and brick buildings in one giant comprehensive and vocational school, with a gym just short of a football field in size and the second largest indoor swimming pool in the state. The much esteemed math and science departments?which offer such courses as computer programming, calculus and earth science?have at their command a computer with eleven keyboards The facilities for vocational education, which train 471 of Medford's 3,548 students, include a fully equipped school of cosmetology When Medford High...
...there are those who think the teachers and the teachers' union account for a big chunk of Medford's problems. Faculty salaries, which comprise 88% of the $4.4 million annual budget, are good. Yet the militant Massachusettes Teachers Association staged a 15-month slowdown at Medford between September 1975 and November 1976. Teachers refused to work with students a minute past their scheduled 7:45 am. to 2:15 p.m. day as a protest against what they felt were low salaries, large class size and insufficient job security In the end, they won their salary demands. A tenured teacher with...