Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree. Secondary School Teacher Christine Bury, 28, of Wilmslow in Cheshire is uncomfortable with the government's unemployment policies. "I have seen lots of students leave school with no work," she notes. "One of our fathers attempted suicide in his despair over unemployment. We are working to teach children to qualify for jobs that aren't there any more. That's the reality...
This nation's public schools have been given too much responsibility. We have asked them to teach the three Rs as well as counsel maladjusted teens, train the handicapped, advise unwed mothers, prevent drug abuse-and give instruction in computer programming. Greater efficiency, not longer hours, is the only way our schools can meet our increasing demands...
...write a persuasive essay, and only one-third can solve a math problem requiring several steps. A recent study by the U.S Chamber of Commerce found that 35% of corporations surveyed had to provide remedial basic-skills training to new employees. AT&T alone spends $6 million annually to teach workers reading and math skills...
...more we look at tomorrow's technologies, the more we see a need for higher skills. So far, our educational system really has not been geared to producing those skills." Several companies have decided to help out the schools. Technicians from Texas Instruments, for example, are preparing to teach math to fourth-and fifth-graders...
...saga sometimes sounds like a comic book or a children's TV serial, magnified a thousand times over, it is no accident. Lucas grew up on both. His father George Sr., who owned a prosperous stationery store in Modesto, was a rigorous man who tried to teach his son and three daughters the old-fashioned virtues: early to bed, early to rise; be true to yourself; work hard, be frugal. His father was convinced that the son paid no attention. "He never listened to me," says George Sr. "He was his mother's pet. If he wanted...