Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...woman teacher has no right to compensation for jury duty-even though men teachers do. New York City's board of education refused to pay Teacher Muriel Goldblatt the difference between her jury pay and what she would have earned had she not been absent from the classroom. Since men teachers get such compensation, Mrs. Goldblatt sued the board. Sorry, ruled Civil Court Judge George Starke. While men teachers must serve when called, New York exempts women from jury duty. Thus women teachers serve only by choice, and are not entitled to pay for teaching when they volunteer...
...neutrality also hurts girls who hesitate to express independent ideas and, because boys get most of the teacher's attention, bright girls do not develop the same self-esteem as bright boys...
...program's administrators also worry about what's happening to average students. Putting down the over-confident has never been a problem. "It's easy," says Rosenblatt, "to get across the message, 'you may be the best thing your high school English teacher has ever seen, but you're not the best thing we've ever seen.'" With the middle level courses, keeping the best minds sufficiently stimulated has also disappeared as a difficulty. The others are more of a problem...
John Simon, drama critic for the Hudson Review, disagreed, insisting that "the function of a critic is to be a teacher and an artist...
...backing a free, pass-fail fifth course, the nine professors on the CEP rejected arguments that the plan would attract too many students and put too much pressure on Harvard's classroom space and teacher supply. There will probably be some strain, Ford said, but the CEP felt it would be manageable...