Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teacher Aide Program, an outgrowth of the Harvard Undergraduate Teachers, is awaiting grants of $300 per year for each of 60 teacher aides. The grants had been included in the Cambridge Office of Economic Opportunity's request for federal poverty funds...
...have sacks of anti-repeal mail brought into the chamber, told Dirksenesque jokes to his colleagues. "I am sure the Senator has heard about the schoolteacher who said, 'Johnny, how do you spell straight?' Johnny replied, 'S-t-r-a-i-g-h-t.' The teacher said, 'What does that mean?' ; Johnny answered, 'Without ginger...
What U.S. schools need, then, is plenty of help. And teacher-turned-President Lyndon Johnson has galvanized Congress into doing something about it. In the past six months, Congress has smashed longstanding barriers and churned out the most significant series of education acts in the nation's history. As a consequence of this legislation and other bills now shaping up under federal auspices...
...concentrate on psychological and psychiatric services for disturbed children, hopes to find out "what's bugging problem youngsters and why they cannot tick." Arlington, Va., educators are considering a music center, a planetarium and a science day camp. Responding to a survey in the trade publication, Grade Teacher, Detroit Teacher Jean Curtiss declared: "Oh boy, I'd like to see to it that every child came to school decently clothed, especially with warm clothes" (part of the federal allotment can, in fact, be spent on clothing). Other instructors want to use their money for such aids as film...
...soon as the National Teacher Corps gets organized, school districts with concentrations of low-income families will be able to get help from the pool and use it any way they see fit. The roving teachers will probably form teams, so that classroom time can be used more effectively, or they may provide individual students with remedial work and counseling...