Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next 20 years, Doctorow fought the blank page-and won four times. Between novels he was a reservations clerk for American Airlines, a reader for CBS, Ian Fleming's editor at New American Library, Norman Mailer's editor at Dial Press, and most recently a teacher at Sarah Lawrence College...
...white college teacher said the racial tension come out during the convention in "turns of phrase". She said the caucus was risking the same mistakes made by the women's suffrage movement, which alienated the abolitionists by protesting the enfranchisement of black illiterates in the face of educated women's exclusion from the vote. "If we drive out the black women, the Puerto Rican women, the Chicanos and Oriental women, we will be playing right into the hands of the male power establishment. It will destroy the caucus...
...took a while, but school officials in Richmond, Va., finally got fed up with teacher absenteeism last week. In studying records for the 1973-74 school year, they found that an average of 40 of the city's 2,000 teachers called in sick each day in the middle of the week; 47 on Fridays and Mondays, and 55 on Mondays after paydays. "There are abuses of the sick-leave policy," charged school board member William Edwards. His proposed solution: Starting next fall two school nurses would make house calls on teachers who are "habitually absent...
Norman Weiss, 27, just finished his first year as a science teacher at Highland Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., and it may be his last. The Oakland public schools, faced with a $4 million deficit and an enrollment loss of 8,500 pupils in the past five years, have laid off Weiss and 185 other teachers. Weiss still has some hope of a job in the fall; the Highland principal told him that there may be an opening in September-or perhaps in October. "I'm single," says Weiss. "I can live by my wits. But those people with...
Panic-Stricken. In financially troubled New York City, where the education budget has been cut almost $270 million, the teacher firings will be the first since the Depression. Says Ronald Jones, a teacher at P.S. 10: "Teachers on the bottom of the list are panic-stricken, bewildered; they can't believe it. They're hoping that some guy will come out of the sky with the money." School Chancellor Irving Anker predicts that the firings will result in many classes having more than 40 pupils in September-compared with the previous average of less than...