Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Year? I think West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt deserves it for the courage he showed during the nerve-shattering hijacking of that Lufthansa plane. His attitude taught some countries an exemplary lesson...
...daughter of a black Alabama businessman who "never wanted us to have to work for white people" and who instilled in her a strict work ethic, Collins allows no time for apathy, or mischief, at Westside. Class runs nonstop until noon. Math is taught, but reading and writing take precedence. Collins divides her pupils into three reading groups of varying ability, launching the five-year-olds with Aesop's Fables and assigning myths, novels and legends to the more advanced students. She draws up her own comprehension questions based on the classics ("Mount Olympus is the home...
...fashioned drilling is part of the daily fare at Westside Preparatory School, a one-room schoolhouse founded by Teacher Marva Collins, 37, as an alternative to the local inner-city schools. For 14 years Collins had taught in the neighborhood elementary school, where false fire alarms were set off a dozen times a day, teachers came to school stoned, and "all we were doing was creating more welfare recipients," she says. When she fought to keep her students with her for two years in a row in order to drill them thoroughly in spelling and grammar, other teachers tagged...
...European-history scholar (out of Bryn Mawr and Harvard), she has been involved in academic life since her father Hajo Holborn, a history professor at Yale, brought the family to the U.S. from Germany when Hanna was four. She married a fellow history student, Charles Gray, taught at Chicago for eleven years, then was appointed a dean at nearby Northwestern in 1971 before moving on to Yale...
...generation, the educated young of the U.S. have been taught to deride or satirize the heroic. It is moving to watch their rapt attention at Terra Nova, for they are famished for models of honor. - T.E.K...