Word: trained
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...suggestion was to train a core of speakers to go out and address groups of all kinds: ladies clubs, church groups, schools, colleges, and labor unions. Ideally, the plan would have been fine training for the students who participated; and it might well have made a slight impact on the community. But the program was organized late in the year and it proved difficult to set up appointments. On balance, it was something of a failure...
Died. Reginald John Connelly, 67, British composer and music publisher, a onetime vaudeville pianist who authored or co-authored more than 200 songs, but is best remembered for a 1925 ditty dashed off with Fellow Trouper Jimmy Campbell on a train ride between engagements, Show me the Way to Go Home; in Bournemouth, England...
...TEACHER TRAINING. Colleges should be free to develop their own programs-with stress on practice teaching. They should join schools in state-financed programs run by "clinical professors of education" - master teachers versed in academic subjects. Schools should train recruits in teams under "cooperating teachers" - masters working with the clinical professors...
Dangerous Misunderstanding. Conant calls this "a national scandal," and he has a solution: take the wraps off the 1,150 colleges that train teachers in the U.S., give future teachers a real academic education, and make practice teaching, not fusty education courses, the key to certification. Only by this "radical" reform, says Conant, will U.S. classrooms get qualified teachers...
Died. Reginald William Lockerbie Spooner, 60, Britain's best-known real-life sleuth and chief of Scotland Yard detectives since 1958, whose most celebrated case was the 1946 capture of Sex Murderer Neville Heath, and most recent assignment was the Great Train Robbery; of cancer; in London...