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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During the second hour, smaller groups of students are drilled in the same lesson by apprentice teachers (juniors or seniors). With about as many routines as Henny Youngman-and his speed to boot-the apprentice whizzes around the class getting students to repeat what they have learned. The pace demands that each student make 65 responses an hour. Drills include imaginary telephone conversations, mock press conferences with "visiting dignitaries" and a wide variety of word games. The apprentice teacher, in effect, acts as a living language lab, snapping his fingers at each student for responses. Rassias' instructions: "Never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dynamiting Language | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

This poem, written by JOHN HILDEBIDLE, a school teacher in Newton, won first prize in the 1976 Summer School poetry contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CITY IS A SHRUB OF WONDERS | 8/10/1976 | See Source »

...Newton school teacher has won the poetry contest sponsored by the summer School Dean's Office after the judges completed their evaluations of close to 30 entries last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newton Teacher Garners Laurels In Poetry Contest | 8/10/1976 | See Source »

...Satterthwaite, retired head of the English department at Groton School in Groton, Mass.: "If a teen-ager is publicly humiliated, does this build his character? Does it build the character of other students who are encouraged to take part in such a show?" The school's first teacher, Ray Fisher, who quit because Gauld permitted no disagreement with his own hawkish views on Viet Nam, charges that Gauld "is completely obsessed. You find that the kids are in effect brainwashed." Doris Vladimiroff, director of HEW'S Upward Bound program in Maine, whose son went to a Hyde summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School of Hard Knocks | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

...Words a Day. No hint of such a source comes to light in the little that is known of Sabatini's reclusive life. The son of an Italian operatic tenor and an English soprano, he was raised in Oporto, Portugal, where his father found work as a singing teacher. The boy went off to school in Switzerland and at 17 got a job as a clerk in London. One day in 1901, rising 26 and bored with answering foreign mail for a rubber company, he dashed off a short story in English and sent it to a magazine. Within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rapier Envy, Anyone? | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

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