Word: numbered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article points up the biggest weakness in teachers colleges today-the superfluous number of "methods" courses. We future teachers are mired in a curriculum of "how to teach" courses, while neglecting the most important aspect of teacher education, a well-rounded liberal arts background...
...University expects to attain its goal through large donations. The campaign in the remaining months will be carried on by 100-150 workers, much less than the number engaged in the nation-wide effort of the last two years...
...precarious is the electoral balance between the two parties, that any one of these issues could turn the election. To win, the Labour Party needs only thirty-five of the present Conservative seats. Since more than this number of seats were won in 1955 by less than 1,000 votes, the election is being decided not in the 630 seats at stake, but in about sixty marginal constituencies. A shift of less than 12,000 votes can make the difference...
...these "lay readers" is expected to make possible the assignment of a larger number and a greater variety of writing exercises and to enable the teacher to try out new devices of composition instruction...
...obtain capable readers selection is made carefully from a large number of applicants and the readers are given a refresher course including a review of English fundamentals and practice in marking a variety of themes. During the school year readers have about 250 hours of work, 170 of which are spent in reading papers and 80 in conferences with students...