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There will be no education courses at Arizona's Prescott College, a four-year liberal arts school that will open next week. Candidly acknowledging the enduring mystery of the process of learning, President Ronald C. Nairn explains: "We would love to teach education if we could find anyone who knew anything about it. This would be the greatest breakthrough since the time Greeks...
...Part of the problem was that 300 new teachers "took our jobs, then found others they preferred and didn't notify us," says Acting Superintendent Thaddeus Lubera. Cleveland hired 650 new teachers, still faced a shortage of 235. It began hiring any college graduates, even if they could teach only one period a day, yet wound up with 50 jobs filled by substitutes and retired teachers who, by law, must quit within 60 days or lose their pensions. Kansas City's director of school personnel, Robert Ward, says it takes about 50 telephone calls to find five substitutes...
...Boerne, Tex., school board hired two Roman Catholic Benedictine sisters to teach math and English, now faces petitions from Protestants who claim that the sisters' habits constitute "silent, striking teaching of sectarian religion...
Like all Gemini missions before it, last week's flight of Gemini 11 was a carefully planned practice session de signed to teach U.S. spacemen as much as possible about the techniques they must master and the troubles they must overcome before landing men on the moon and returning them safely to earth. The practice paid off handsome ly. From its improbably precise launch, made within a tiny, two-second "win dow" of time, to its all-but-perfect splashdown 21 miles from the recovery carrier Guam, Gemini 11 proved to be an able instructor indeed...
Convinced at last that a full-size sub was possible, Way figured that it was worthwhile to try a small version. Last year, while on leave from Westinghouse to teach at the University of California's Santa Barbara branch, he handed his senior engineering class a term project: the design of an experimental electromagnetic submarine...