Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Classroom was fathered last October by The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. It was mainly designed to upgrade science teaching in U.S. high schools, whose best teachers have long been lured by more money in industry. With NBC affiliates donating the early half-hour on 149 network stations (151 next semester), the $1,112,000 project was financed by the Ford Foundation and hefty grants from industry (Bell Telephone, Standard Oil of California, General Foods, IBM, U.S. Steel, Pittsburgh Plate Glass). Some 250 colleges jumped aboard, signed up 5,000 regular students, who pay an average $45 tuition...
...Such a law, still on the books in Tennessee, brought the late great trial lawyer Clarence Darrow and Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan into conflict in 1925's famed "Monkey Trial." Science Teacher John Thomas Scopes was found guilty, assessed a $100 fine...
...latest Russian joke going the rounds in London is the story of an inspector from the Moscow school system who drops into a classroom and asks the teacher: "Have you any exceptionally bright students...
...have one," says the teacher. "He's a year ahead of all the others." Little Ivan is pushed in front of the inspector to be questioned...
...absolutely right," says the inspector, turning to the teacher. "He is a year ahead...