Word: teachers
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...Jersey last week, two women teachers spent seven hours in a county workhouse; a male teacher and a national representative of the American Federation of Teachers were handcuffed together, mugged and jailed. They were among eleven educators found guilty of contempt of court for leading a two-week teachers' strike in Woodbridge Township. They thereby acquired the dubious distinction of becoming the first school workers ever to serve time as a result of a teachers' strike...
...through my two years at the school," says Meldon Levine (Berkeley '64), "they tried to discourage me from going for a Ph.D." Levine, a Berkeley student government leader before the heyday of the Free Speech Movement, had applied to the Woodrow Wilson School with the intention of becoming a teacher. In light of the school's obvious dislike, even then, for Ph.D. types, he was surprised to learn he had been admitted. But the campaign to turn him away from teaching ultimately had its effect, if not quite the desired one. Today Levine is a first-year student at Harvard...
...Should Man Go to the Moon" [Feb. 10] does not mention. For more than 50 years, scientists have been crying for support of basic research, not for what it produces immediately but for what it ultimately provides for society's betterment. The space program should be our great teacher in this. It is the first case of widespread support of science by the public, and already the public is being made aware of the benefit it will derive Ironically, some of the same scientists who in earlier, leaner days were crying for support of science by the Government...
...wish to bring to public attention a similar plan which, it seems to me, will better achieve the goals of the A-plan without leading to many of the A-plan's undesirable side effects. Under this new plan, the teacher of a non-required course announces at the beginning of the term that he will fail every student in the course, and, at the end of the term, does. The advantages of the F-plan are obvious. Students will not concentrate excessively upon getting high grades in the course, and the teacher is spared the responsibility of making...
Disenfranchisement bothers them as well. Being neither student nor teacher, the teaching fellows are as unwelcome at faculty meetings as at the conferences of undergraduate organizations. Much of the direct contact with undergraduates is their responsibility, yet they feel they have little to say about how undergraduate courses are taught. They have reservations about graduate programs but no means to express them. In general, their influence in the University seems to them incommensurate with their numbers (Harvard has more than 900 TF's) and their importance. They hunger to be consulted on the issues that affect them, and they want...