Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about what grandparents were at the age they could have been attending Harvard: a Jewish store clerk, an Irish bar bouncer, a Texas construction worker, a New York Italian cop, a Black post office worker, a Connecticut farmer, a Texas reverend, a Jewish actuary, an Italian cleaner, a Black teacher, a Puerto Rico businessman and pool hall owner, a senator in Taiwan and a Naval doctor in China. The majority did not attend college...
...Unlike Whittle Communications' Channel One, however, which beams news and ads into schools on regular television, the electronic classroom enables instructors and pupils to hear and interact with one another much as they would in any normal setting. But the visuals are still one-way: students can see the teacher, but not vice versa...
Televised courses can be a bargain for financially strapped schools. A district may pay as much as $8,000 for a satellite dish, cordless phones and the electronic keypads or computer terminals needed for students to communicate with their long-distance teachers. That one-time outlay amounts to far less than a conventional teacher's annual salary. Like network anchors, video teachers submit to screen tests and often conduct their classes without a studio audience...
...seem pleased with long-distance learning. Ninth-grader Vanessa Bryan, one of only 700 residents on Ocracoke Island, N.C., could not have taken Spanish if her school had not tapped into the TI-IN Network. Now she and "classmates" in 18 schools across the country receive instruction from a teacher based in a San Antonio studio. They accept TV tutelage as routine. Says Vanessa: "It's a good course...
...last month Linda Hiwot, a Brooklyn junior high school teacher, got a surprise when she phoned her bank for a credit-card balance. Instead of the familiar human teller, she was answered by a computer-generated voice that told all callers with Touch-Tone phones to "press 1 now," thus beginning a series of steps that would eventually lead to her balance. When she called the IRS about an overdue tax check, another computer voice directed her to "push 9" for refunds. Even a local department store had acquired a robot operator, which like an overeager clerk insisted on taking...