Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lighting Up. The most pressing problem involves teachers. Many are reluctant to make the necessary psychological shift from the traditional method of handing out their own or textbook conclusions to students to learn by role. Few colleges prepare teachers for the discovery technique, and systematic retraining of present teachers is rare. Officials at the American Association for the Advancement of Science estimate that about half of the teachers handling the new courses are not using the course materials properly. Since the method also demands a good deal more preparation for each class, success depends upon teacher enthusiasm. "Only...
...fact of ex-priests in their midst; many of the defectors remain on good terms with friends still in clerical ranks. Nonetheless, former priests generally prefer anonymity and seek to avoid publicizing their ecclesiastical background. Says one former priest from the Midwest, who now is a Boston textbook salesman: "On the whole I have met with very little hostility-but then I don't tell everyone I meet, 'Guess what? I used to be a priest...
...Peter Babcox, 30, studied education reporting at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, worked on a literacy program in Bengal for the Peace Corps and later as a project editor in textbook publishing for a division of Time Inc. He is now our reporter for Education...
...cent lower textbook expenditures...
Some 11,000 Detroit teachers, including 6,400 members of the American Federation of Teachers, will get raises of $850 annually for two years, work one week less a year, enjoy a bigger voice in textbook selection and curriculum changes. They also won a 30-child limit on class size in the first three grades of ghetto schools and a 39-student limit in all other classes. Unhappy school-board members could only shrug their shoulders when asked where most of the $18.7 million for pay raises will come from, nod hopefully toward the state legislature...