Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they emerged from school. They trampled Richard Sigh, 12, in the dust, breaking a leg. Another twelve-year-old ran a block-long gauntlet of flailing whites, emerged with bleeding face and torn clothes. Still other Negro youngsters were thrown to the ground and kicked. "That'll teach you, nigger!" grunted one assailant. "Don't come back tomorrow." For good measure, the rowdies pummeled and kicked four white out-of-town newsmen. A pickup truck equipped with a two-way radio helped the mob head off fleeing children. Grenada policemen stood by and grinned. "These niggers," explained Constable...
...have proved a fizzle for too many youths. Just as obviously, the schools' own self-improvements, plus such antipoverty programs as the Job Corps, should be the main remedies for the failure. But as long as the military services need more manpower, it seems reasonable that they should teach such basic skills as grammar, reading and arithmetic, along with more technical skills. The relevant question is whether they are equipped...
...little more than liberal arts colleges or professional schools for a wealthy elite; now they cannot find nearly enough teachers, part-time or not, to handle expanding enrollments. At Buenos Aires, enrollment in economics alone has nearly quadrupled in the past ten years, to 22,400 students-yet to teach them all, there are only 205 professors, who sometimes handle 800 students each. Lectures at San Marcos are such sporadic affairs that students often assemble in classrooms with nothing more than a wistful hope that a professor will show...
That is a haiku, a 500-year-old Japanese poetic form whose first and last lines always have five syllables, its middle line seven. Today, grade school teachers in the U.S. are turning to it as a new tool to teach English composition. Asked to write their own haiku (pronounced high-koo), children find that its precise rules and free content pose delightful puzzles, with solutions limited only by the flexibility of their vocabulary and the fetters on their fancy...
...Roget's Thesaurus, finds that both become thoroughly thumbed as the children seek synonyms to fit the rigid line scheme, stretching their vocabularies. To keep them searching, she bans such overworked words as fine, nice, pretty and good. Mrs. Finley is not alone in trying to teach writing in 17 hard syllables: the National Council of Teachers of English reports that haiku are turning up in classrooms throughout the country. Creating a haiku, teachers have found, expands a child's imagery, provides a quick sense of accomplishment because of its brevity. But the basic appeal of a haiku...