Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once an application is complete in all respects (i.e. teacher reports, test scores, etc. are in), it is removed from the office's "dead file" and released to be read by admission officials. An application generally gets two, sometimes three preliminary readings. An official is put in charge of applications from each area of the country and is responsible for reading all the cases from that section...
When a case is presented to the committee, everyone has the docket in front of him; the area man presents a summary, reading from school and teacher reports, the student's essay and the interview sheet...
...window blocked out. I felt I would be more comfortable with a policeman. The kid ran the school. He was first in his class, president of the school, captain of a team, but with 450 scores. We decided to take him and give him some real help. His Expos teacher had him write a paper every day. By junior and senior year his grades were no lower than a B. He's at law school now. He had it but I could've been wrong. The question is do you take a chance. We believe when you find someone...
...that the burden for improving learning always falls upon the teacher? Could it possibly be that a child's parents and home environment could be where the cure lies? Just imagine how an interest in reading might be developed if children came home from school and saw Mom reading a book instead of watching the soap operas. Imagine how achievement test scores in science might improve if Dad took the kids to a science museum on Sunday instead of sitting on his fanny watching six hours of professional football...
...spirit of support or sacrifice has been summoned from the capital itself. It has not offered blood, money or even passion. No one has bothered to rally the people; there is a lone loudspeaker in the main square, but its scratchy, martial music is largely ignored. A high school teacher explained: "We Vietnamese, we know the verdict. Now we are awaiting the sentence of heaven...