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...back-to-school season began last week in an atmosphere of unwonted tranquillity. This year, in contrast to previous Septembers, early prospects were for relatively little turmoil from teacher strikes and demonstrations. In fact, school officials in most parts of the country were hopeful that the unusual calm in the nation's classrooms would prove to be long-lasting...
Such settlements seemed to bear out the prediction of New York City Teacher Leader Albert Shanker that "the number of strikes will be small this year." Explains Shanker, who won the presidency of the 425,000-member American Federation of Teachers in a union election last month: "There is a general state of depression in which teachers are also caught. In this situation, they are willing to settle for less...
public education is likely to shift from the jousting of recent years between teachers and local school boards to a less visible fight for control of the nation's battling teacher unions. The prime contender is Shanker, who at 45 already has his hands on several levers of power in U.S. education. Besides the A.F.T., which is the second largest U.S. teachers' organization after the 1.5 million-member National Education Association, he heads New York City's United Federation of Teachers, whose showdowns with local officials over salaries and a school decentralization plan made Shanker...
Under current Harvard record-keeping practices, your record begins when you submit your application. It quickly grows to include score reports, secondary school reports, teacher reports, interview reports and comments made by admissions officers...
Author Carl Solberg, a former associate editor of TIME and a teacher of history and journalism at Columbia, has written the first concise history of the U.S. roughly from 1947 to 1967. He deals to some extent with the textures of everyday living-the rush to the suburbs and the rise of the barbecue pit, James Dean fan clubs and bomb shelters. But his main aim is to describe the enormous effect of the cold war on American life...