Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon imposed direct controls on prices and wages for the first time since the Korean War. Confronted with a situation of inflation-cum-unemployment in which the old textbook remedies were no longer working, he seemed to be committing the Federal Government to an intimate role in major pay and pricing decisions by U.S. business for some time to come. The changes were all the more remarkable for having been agreed to in the course of one short weekend at Camp David...
...countryside miles from their base. Soon the Berets, many of them veterans of countless similar operations in Montagnard villages in the mountains of South Viet Nam, were moving among the natives, ministering to the sick, refurbishing schools, teaching preventive hygiene and first aid. In many ways it was a textbook exercise, except that the locale was not Viet Nam but two poverty-stricken counties in rural North Carolina...
Adequate testing is slow, too costly for most small publishers, and often fiendishly complex. Still, executives of several big textbook publishers, including McGraw-Hill, agreed with Komoski's criticism. They joined him in favoring a Government-run National Institute of Education-now drawing bipartisan support in Congress-that could expand research. The U.S. spends 4.6% of its health budget and about 10% of its military budget on research and development. In education, says Indiana Congressman John Brademas, an institute backer, the R. and D. costs are now less than one-third...
...brought up in western Texas, his early experiences with the black man seem not unlike those of most whites brought up in racially sheltered American cities and towns. King does not let himself off by merely going through the ritual of describing his first contacts with blacks, his textbook injustices to them and his first realization that blacks could be as intelligent as white folks. All that is here (and vividly set down)-but so are the sexual fantasies (Lena Horne, a black whore) and the methods used to profit off of racism (e.g., falsely playing up an affection...
Precisely because textbook publishers now offer so many alternative methods, the old fuss and fury over reading techniques may be a thing of the past. But the familiar truism remains: for most children, learning in school depends primarily on the caliber of the teacher. Perhaps the greatest danger in the new wealth of reading materials is that it will tempt some schools to spend money on flashy hardware and neglect the job of teaching teachers how to use it effectively...