Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...problem is compounded when racial sensitivities are involved. Should teachers try to enforce the prescriptive rule of standard American English on black children who have learned a dialect at home that is quite different, that is "incorrect" by the standard rules? Ghetto students are often faced with the choice of accepting the teacher's standards or retaining those of family and friends. Says William Smith, associate professor at Boston University's School of Education: "If a child is told the way he speaks is ignorant, he has only two options: ridicule or silence...
...them is The TM Book (Price/Stern/Sloan; $3.95), an adoring introduction to the movement by Peter Me Williams, a Michigan poet, and Denise Denniston, a full-time teacher of meditation. Out less than a month, the book already ranks No. 2 on some major paperback bestseller lists, behind The Joy of Sex. Although the subtitle promises to explain "how to enjoy the rest of your life," the book in fact attempts little more than an almost childishly simple accounting of what TM is-or, more precisely, is not. The authors point out that TM is neither a religion nor a philosophy...
...Only those who have suffered very deeply can totally understand Dmitri Shostakovich's music," said Cellist-Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich as he paid tribute to his former teacher and friend. "He gave to the world not only a sense of great beauty, but also a feeling for the great difficulties and contradictions of the epoch in which he lived...
...British have come up with a better solution. The big packaging firm of Coloroll, Ltd., is producing plastic bags that will decompose naturally in five years. The secret: addition of clean, dry starch to plastic polymers. "By putting in the starch," explains Inventor Gerald J.C. Griffin, a teacher of plastics technology at Brunei University, "we are adding carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The bags will act as a carbon source for soil bacteria, breaking down into humus and carbon dioxide." Griffin's process, which can be used for most plastic products, has a powerful appeal beyond reducing long-lived litter...
...popular that children commute to its Sunday sessions from distant areas by jet plane and bullet train. Some 2,600 pupils -all sixth-graders propping for the junior high entrance exam-attend the school. A typical class starts at 8:30 a.m. and continues for 50 minutes with the teacher asking questions and 100 pupils chanting back the answers. ("When did the Russo-Japanese war break out?" "When was the League of Nations formed?") Recently, a visitor asked one student if she found the routine boring. "No," she replied determinedly. "It's very useful...