Word: principall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baltimore's paunchy three-term Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro was punching hard. "I'm gonna bust their skulls wide open!", cried he of his rivals for Maryland's Democratic senatorial nomination. "You can bet on that." The three other principal candidates were punching too. Candidate Clarence...
The course called "Refresher Math" at James Lick High School in San Jose, Calif, (pop. 150,000) is a dumping ground for the supposedly unteachable-and the untaught. The math ability of its students runs to about fifth-grade level; their IQs are the school's lowest. This year...
With rough stuff and great patience, Ergil teaches his slow learners math, and in the bargain teaches them something of self-respect. Said one newly awakened child: "I want .to learn more about everything." When Ergil persuaded school officials to let him try to teach his backward youngsters algebra next...
Principal Baker calls the rigid certification requirements that block Ergil's advancement "ridiculous," meanwhile can only rehire his teaching phenomenon in a temporary post. Uncertified Teacher Ergil drives into San Francisco two nights a week to take education courses, will have to plow through instruction in such matters as...
Only a Brief. CBS's The Verdict Is Yours (3:30 p.m., E.D.T.) has no script, and not even the producer knows what the verdict will be. Instead, each "trial" is fabricated in the head of the show's lawyer, Selig Silverman. Each principal is told the "truth...