Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With astonishment, I see on the front page of The Crimson that three black students have accused my friend and fellow Expository Writing teacher, Suze Craig, of "discouraging black students" and of creating a "racial atmosphere" in her class...
Only two days before the story ran, The Crimson ran a front page article that reported favorably on a specific teaching innovation of Suze's and one other Expos teacher: the use of tape-recorded comments to replace written marginal comments on papers...
...bills of more than $150,000. Still waiting for the inheritance, he is now spending almost half his income to pay off under an extended plan at $3,100 a month. In Los Angeles, Kenneth Breckenridge, 42, a mail sorter, and his wife Genevieve, a teacher in the Head Start program, found themselves paying $1,178 of their combined $1,450 monthly income to clear up credit bills. Says Breckenridge: "I found credit hard to resist even when I didn't need it. Beneficial Finance would send me something in the mail saying, 'You're good...
...suburbia, may be replaced by smaller cars. The automakers expect to sell more of the handy vans that are already a part of the youth culture as well as more recreational vehicles: motor homes, campers, dune buggies, Jeeps, motorcycles and mopeds. Education may finally get better, as the teacher-student ratio improves. Says Economist Alan Sweezy of the California Institute of Technology: "I think ZPG is going to be a very good thing for higher education...
...Wise, whose influential 1968 treatise, Rich Schools, Poor Schools, argued that children in both affluent and underprivileged school districts had the right to an equal education. Wise is currently working on another book, tentatively titled Hyper-Rationalization, which condemns competency testing for "narrowing the goals of education and prompting teachers to teach the test." Wise fears that minimal competency entails the extension to education of such business-school concepts as cost effectiveness and accountability. Says he of minimal competency advocates: "It is as if they want to set goals and objectives by numbers. There is little room for the excellent...