Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Control Data of Minneapolis has been investing in the corporate retraining business for several years. It sells a computer and software system called Plato that lets workers teach themselves skills ranging from high school math to robotics, then follows up with on-the-job instruction. Insists Chairman William Norris: "You can't retrain unless you use computers. It costs too much for small companies otherwise." Control Data's effort has yet to pay off, but the company hopes Plato will be in the black next year...
...adequately educated-the sort of hackneyed wail that Bush himself would never have dwelt on or even considered right plucked from a greater, kindlier context. Bush's world was the greater, kindlier context. Like Samuel Johnson he knew everything worth knowing. Like Johnson, too, he was born to teach books. Few people are. It is an odd pursuit. Literary study stands at the center of modern education, but when one tries to determine what happens in the relationship among book, student and teacher, the teacher grows shadowy, eventually vanishes...
State Sen. William Amoss (D-Md.) has drafted a bill that would allow students in Maryland to attend public colleges free of charge if they agree to teach math or science courses in the state's schools for at least two years after they graduate...
...addition, he responded to charges commonly levelled at the College. Insisting that full professors do indeed teach undergraduate courses, that the teaching fellows are qualified, and that the problem of crowding is no worse than at other schools...
...want to force fancy calligraphy on young children," says Nan Jay Barchowsky, 53, a Maryland writing teacher who is coordinating a drive for handwriting reform, with the aid of 47 calligraphic associations in 26 states. "We want to teach children an efficient hand, one that is legible, fast and easy to write. For some scribes, that isn't calligraphic enough. But most of us believe there is beauty in simplicity...