Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first article was entitled, "Teacher Charged with Degrading Blacks." Though a thesaurus definition of the word "degrading" might make it applicable here, our true complaint concerning Mrs. Craig was of "certain practices, in relation to the black students in her classes, which tended to discourage our reception of a meaningful experience from the class...
Most of the 17 pices in the exhibit use some sort of glass rod filled with one of the "noble gasses" (you remember from chemistry: that's helium, argon, neon etc.). The chemistry teacher always called those the "inert" gasses, but Sina uses electronics to make the gas-filled rods move in all sorts of interesting ways...
Another professor said yesterday Tribe is a popular teacher because he spends a great deal of time preparing for his classes so he can communicate difficult and sophisticated ideas clearly. "He is a very great success in teaching students and is very popular with students," the professor added...
...pleasures, and by the unexpected amount of freedom to read or work at hobbies and local causes. But a second surprise is likely to be loneliness and the depressing reaction of other women to their new experience of housewifery. Valerie Kraus, 34, quit her job as an Illinois teacher last fall when she saw her two children "were losing me and the attention and love that only a mother can give. Soon afterward," she recalls, "at a pot-luck dinner at church, we each had to tell about the nicest thing that had happened to us recently. Other women talked...
Melia now lives in Burke, Va., with her engineer husband and two sons, aged 5 and 3, but before she quit to care for them she was a $15,000-a-year teacher in New York City. When she decided to go back to work again after a couple of years, she found herself applying only for jobs in the $8,000-a-year range, for which she was overqualified. This was not because of professional rustiness, or the need for more time at home, or even because teaching jobs were hard to find. Says she: "I had devalued myself...