Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd at the center has vanished, to reconvene at a special session cheerfully entitled "Suggestions for Job Seekers" but full of depressing statistics. Of the 1,094 Ph.D.s created last year in English and 753 in languages, we learn only 42% and 46%, respectively, have landed steady teaching positions. "Ten years ago, anybody who didn't have a job by Jan. 15 would look in the mirror to see if he had leprosy," comments Jasper Neel, director of the M.L.A.'s English programs. "Now there won't be an upturn of Ph.D. hiring in this century...
...life difficult for Christian missionaries sworn to spread the word of God as widely as possible. Most Bible societies, in fact, concentrate mainly on getting adequate translations into the major written languages. But the Summer Institute of Linguistics has a longer reach. For the past 42 years, following the teachings of its founder W. Cameron Townsend, S.I.L. teams have been seeking out tiny, isolated tribes in remote corners of the world. With a little help from tape recorders, phonetics and the science of linguistics, they create written language out of the primitive spoken word; eventually they teach the tribesmen...
...most city high schools, this policy brought on a rapid and large-scale decline in the quality of students in CUNY and in the quality of a CUNY education itself. Professors who could have been spending their time communicating the wonders of literature to their students now had to teach kids the alphabet and basic spelling...
Collins' educational philosophy is simple. "All you need to teach is a blackboard, books and a pair of legs that will last through the day," she says. "If you gave me $20,000 worth of audiovisual equipment, I'd leave it out on the sidewalk." She insists that students answer her in complete sentences and not use so-called black English. Her pupils, many of whom do not know the alphabet when they arrive, take standardized tests at the beginning and end of each year to measure their ability. Their progress has been phenomenal. Many jump from well...
...month tuition. Collins has a waiting list of 150 pupils. She would like to expand Westside but refuses to apply for any federal grants. Says she: "I don't want any experts telling me what's good for these kids or telling me how to teach." Meanwhile. Westside's rigor is apparently as attractive to pupils as to their parents. Collins' brood even requested homework over the Christmas vacation...