Word: schoolroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worst problem created by the Israeli school shutdown, ironically enough, has been anti-Israeli violence. Without the routine of the schoolroom, many boys and girls have spent the idle months caught up in the intifadeh, | congregating on street corners instead of in classrooms. "My first challenge will be trying to make my students act and behave like students and not like rebels," says Ramadan, a teacher in Hebron, just 20 miles from Jerusalem. To help promote order, the Israeli army has promised to stay clear of school grounds. But few Palestinians trust the military to keep its word; fewer still...
...English countryside. On his journey into an ordinary man's heart of darkness, he incurs the wrath of wife, ex-lover, police, and hapless passersby, and attracts the affections of one of his older students. The climax at the headmasters' conference is a hilarious recreation of Simpson's schoolroom with adult students, bringing the plot into a neat full circle...
...American schoolroom has traditionally provided a hopeful glimpse of the nation's future, and some people still imagine it to be a Rockwellian scene of mostly pink-cheeked children spelling out the adventures of Dick and Jane. But come for a moment to the playground of the Franklin elementary school in + Oakland, where black girls like to chant their jump-rope numbers in Chinese. "See you manana," one student shouts with a Vietnamese accent. "Ciao!" cries another, who has never been anywhere near Italy. And let it be noted that the boy who won the National Spelling Bee in Washington...
More is at stake than merely a place in the schoolroom. By installing their computers in classes or on campus, manufacturers hope to ensure after-school success. "The education market is not all that profitable, but it is highly strategic," says Clive Smith, an analyst at Boston's Yankee Group, a market-research organization. "School use turns out to be absolutely key to establishing brand loyalty." Moreover, school sales can generate home purchases. Students working on Apple, Commodore or Radio Shack computers in school often lobby parents to get the same brand of machine at home...
GRIGORY KOZINTSEV'S 1971 screen version of King Lear is living, breathing evidence of the schoolroom adage that Shakespeare's plays were meant to be seen and not read. With the familiar sounds of Cordelia's solemn "nothing, my lord," and Lear's famous tirade "Blow, winds, blow," translated into Russian, much of the play's impact depends on the actors' ability to reinforce their foreign words with physical gestures, tones of voice, facial expressions and other universally understood signs. And it is greatly to director Kotzintsev's credit that the play's primordial, elemental power is strengthened--not diluted...