Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's largest public school system last week fell victim to a collision between two significant contemporary movements: the justifiable, and not necessarily incompatible, yearnings for teacher power and for black power. All but a handful of New York City's 900 schools were twice shut down by strikes as the tightly disciplined United Federation of Teachers confronted a predominantly Negro community in an angry struggle over teacher assignments...
Jeering Crowd. Told by McCoy to assemble in the auditorium of Ocean Hill-Brownsville's Intermediate School 55, the teachers faced a group of angry parents and Negro militants who repeatedly disrupted the meeting with screams and howls. Auditorium lights were flicked on and off, and spectators taunted the teachers. "They hooted at us, cursed us, called us fagots and honkies," reported one teacher. "They said we'd be going out in pine boxes...
Brinton had completed 43 years of teaching at Harvard when he became Professor Emeritus last July 1. He was a noted authority on Western intellectual history and the pattern of revolution. As a teacher, he was widely known and well-respected...
After graduating from Ascension (with bow tie firmly in place), McLain went on to Mt. Carmel High, Chicago's "Little Notre Dame." Father Ben Hogan, a former English teacher at Mt. Carmel, remembers Denny well: "He had a lot of trouble keeping his mouth shut." And he was no whiz in the classroom, although he managed to maintain a C average. Denny insists that he was really better than that. "I went to school like I pitch," he says. "I am as good as I want to be. I could study 20 minutes and pass a test. Or I could...
...family were priests, from Aaron to my father. It was my honour to close the eyes of my famous teacher...