Word: teached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California, the tax students were high-school teachers. The California scheme: the teachers will teach the new subject to their regular high-school students, who will then go home and be father's little helpers. In Detroit, tax officials estimated that the hole-in-the-wall advisers, with their eyes open or shut, got the right answers about 10% of the time. In Portland, Ore., ambulances responded twice to calls from collectors' offices. A woman confronted with her final figure was "in a state of collapse"; a strong man who had spied his had fainted. And Oregon...
...Army, which had anticipated this, had appealed to U.S. schools for help. Sensitive to criticism that it was militarizing the U.S. educational system, the Army never went beyond appeal. Educators responded, set up intensive preinduction courses. But the most that secondary schools could teach was fundamentals. Young draftees now have little or no actual experience...
...Cherry Point, they are clerks and stenographers in the post administration building. They inspect and pack parachutes at the loft, teach gunnery to the men, operate Link trainers, help in the control tower. The photography department is now exclusively a woman's domain...
Passionate protagonist of Texan bilingualism is Mexican-born, Texas-trained Edmundo E. Mireles, who runs Corpus Christi's grade-school Spanish education program. Linguist Mireles (he knows seven languages) spends his days teaching Spanish, his nights brushing up the high-school Spanish of other teachers who strive to keep one Spanish jump ahead of their pupils. Because Mireles says it is unnecessary to know much Spanish to teach a little, some pedagogues eye him askance. But he argues from results...
...American Home Products Corp. of New York City as a public service in the hope that it will help draw the Americas closer together. For only one in about 43 Latin Americans speaks English now-and we like to think that Aprendamos Inglés will help teach our language to many more...