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...fill out a job application, they can't spell, they can't read, they don't have much capacity to function properly." In Oakland, Calif., where a third of the high school seniors have reading and math skills below eighth-grade level, Director of Pupil Personnel Robert Williams recommends that employers consult teachers before hiring high school graduates...
...serving middle-class children well. But in the inner cities, the all too familiar results are dismal. Explains Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who has made a study of the "children of poverty": "Many ghetto schoolteachers will tell you, if you interview them directly, that they see little hope for their pupils. Why, then, make a herculean effort? These children will be leaving school anyway, with little future ahead of them. What a contrast to the warmth and hopefulness of the teacher in the middle-class suburb!" Most schools, says Ron Edmonds, director of Harvard's Center for Urban Studies...
Glass-Eye Tales. Falk's only concerns with the technical end of the show are the camera and lighting angles, because of his glass eye. "When I throw one of these," he says, dancing his left eye around until the pupil is nearly out of sight, "I ask for a retake." Otherwise Falk seems unconcerned about his disability and willingly regales listeners with suspiciously tall glass-eye tales. Examples: unfairly called out at third base during a high school baseball game, he handed the umpire the appurtenance, saying, "Here, you could use another eye"; at a girl friend...
...votes of Cambridge's fledgling Puerto Rican population; the small size of that group (under 3 per cent of Cambridge's population) and the large number of Puerto Ricans who are not registered to vote reduce Garcia's chances of winning. Garcia emphasizes the need to improve pupil reading scores and bilingual education programs...
Shot in Hong Kong by Warner Bros., Enter the Dragon is made - in English - with Hollywood expertise and a certain rather lighthearted affection for the excesses and silliness of the whole Kung Fu genre. During one of the hero's few moments of repose, he advises a pupil who wants to learn the secrets of personal combat: "Feel - don't think...