Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President deferred the most sensitive decision to next year-how the corporation should be financed to protect it from political pressures. Also in the education field, Johnson called for a fourfold increase in the Teacher Corps (to 5,500 volunteers) by mid-1968 and expansion of programs to train new teachers and administrators, combat adult illiteracy and eliminate school segregation. Total cost of his education proposals: $11 billion...
Cases where a volunteer fails to meet the minimum demands of his job are rare, especially in an area like teaching that has well-defined working hours. Much more common is the teacher who does a conscientious day-to-day job of teaching but does not extend himself in any other direction. I asked a Peace Corps evaluator how he went about judging the effectiveness of volunteers in out-of-the-class activities. "It's easy," he replied. "I just ask him, 'What are you doing in the community?' Most of the time the answer is 'Nothing...
...jailings symbolized the mounting militancy of U.S. teachers as another season of contract negotiations approaches. Despite existing laws against public-employee strikes in almost every state, a score of teacher walkouts have already taken place this year, and more are certain to take place as negotiations heat up. By contrast, in all of 1960-61 there were only three such strikes...
Cajoling Legislatures. The successes of the A.F.T. are rapidly pushing the 110-year-old N.E.A. into a tougher stance of its own toward improving teachers' salaries and working conditions. Organized primarily by professors of education, the N.E.A. has long been dominated by its principals and superintendents rather than by its teacher membership, and A.F.T. officials sneer at it as a "company union." Traditionally favoring discreet pressure rather than open protest, the N.E.A. has done its most effective work at the state level, where its sophisticated lobbyists have cajoled legislatures into sharp increases in state school...
Married. Forbes Burnham, 44, Prime Minister of Guyana (formerly British Guiana) since it joined the roster of independent nations last year; and Viola Harper, 34, high school Latin teacher; he for the second time; in St. John's, Antigua...