Word: roam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest in the open classroom, the flexible way of teaching that is sweeping the public schools. Usually, fixed rows of desks and fixed weekly lessons are abandoned. Children roam from one study project to another, theoretically following their native curiosity and learning at their own uneven rates. The new principles are reminiscent of John Dewey's progressive philosophy of 40 years ago. Open education, however, emphasizes new discoveries about how children learn, uses more teaching materials and gives the teacher a more difficult task-to know just when the child is ready for his next stage of development...
Unhampered by jurisdictional restraints imposed by membership in the AFL-CIO, the Teamsters are free to roam the labor lot in search of new recruits. Though over-the-road truck drivers continue to be the union's elite, earning up to $20,000 a year, the majority of its members are now in much lower paid, non-trucking jobs. Card-carrying Teamsters now include hospital workers, bridge tenders and race-track guards in New York, rice-mill workers in Houston, lampmakers in Los Angeles and campus police at the University of Minnesota. The Teamsters will shortly absorb an entire...
Last month I talked with a reporter who was in Cam Ranh about six months ago. Sand drifts are covering the roads now, packs of wild dogs roam around the post and the 5000 beds of the 12th Evac Hospital are all empty. The street lights still turn on automatically every evening...
...guard force was reduced from 14 to four. Yet when Principal Herbert Tabor chained fire doors to keep out intruders, he was fined $100 for violating Detroit's fire laws. Now the fire doors are unlocked, and intruders, some armed with knives or revolvers, find it easier to roam the building, selling drugs, shaking down students for money or snatching teachers' purses...
...more often, however, it is the students themselves who are the victims. School officials blame most of these incidents on intruders, often dropouts who return to prey on their former schoolmates. They lie in wait in school toilets to shake down students for their lunch money, roam the halls and playgrounds extorting and terrorizing...