Word: peering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class in years. In part, they have seen it all in high school; in part, the economic downturn pressures them to do well academically in order to justify their family's investment and later get a good job. Some of today's freshmen seem less susceptible to peer-group pressure than their predecessors...
...meant to serve a society which does not now exist." Still, some harbingers of deschooling have already appeared. By absorbing children's attention, TV has broken the schools' monopoly on teaching. So have industrial training courses, private computer schools and burgeoning apprenticeship programs for high school students. Peer matching is now performed by a company that arranges telephone "conference calls" among people with similar interests (TIME, Jan. 11). A recent Supreme Court decision (Griggs v. Duke Power Co.) banned exclusionary aptitude tests for men who wanted to advance within a company. The law may eventually require employers...
...Peer Pressure. Another approach is to make sure that tenured professors keep working productively. At the University of Utah, for example, Law Professor Arvo Van Alstyne is completing a study of tenure that is expected to propose a new code of faculty performance standards, periodic reviews by a faculty committee to check performance, and a top-level ombudsman to hear student complaints of bad teaching. Even if laggard professors could not be fired, they might be required to take refresher courses. Says B.U. President Silber: "One of the most severe penalties you can impose on a faculty member...
Died. Pierre Luboshutz, 76, concert pianist; in Rockport, Me. Following his graduation' from the Moscow Conservatory in 1912, Luboshutz served as accompanist for such personalities as Gregor Piatigorsky and Isadora Duncan. He also did scores for Stanislavsky productions including Peer Gynt. Luboshutz first came to the U.S. in 1928 and began performing piano duet concerts in 1937 with his wife, Genia Nemenoff. For 30 years they toured the world, winning critical praise and popular success with their subtle interpretations of Mendelssohn, Mozart and Brahms...
...initial steps toward literacy in this curriculum are distinctive because children use their understanding of sound-letter correspondences, however limited, as soon as they are taught them. The knowledge is treated as a functional necessity in peer group interaction. Earlier dramatic experience leads to story reading by one student to a group. The reader gets a sense of the importance of conveying a meaning because other students do not have an identical text. The first attempts at composition are the recording of sensory stimuli and dictation of stories by young to older children. These are followed by written observations...