Word: upon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief engineer of this modest student power coup is Norr, who has worked on pass-fail through every phase of its tangled history. He was a member of the 1966-67 HPC which hit upon the idea one spring afternoon of combining its desire for a free fifth course and pass-fail into one package proposal...
...have finally given way to younger dinosaurs. Robert Evans of Paramount is 37. Richard Zanuck, Fox production chief, is 34. David Picker, United Artists' vice president for production, is 36. Today the studios are frequently packagers, providing money and facilities for small, independent production teams-which naturally insist upon artistic control. These film makers are not necessarily American. Hollywood is bankrolling movies all over the globe, and the cast and crew of a film can sometimes read like the attendance list of a U.N. committee meeting...
Cieslik's mode of questioning is the essence of the discovery approach to science (TIME, Dec. 16, 1966), in which Socratic discussion led by a teacher forces students to hit upon conclusions of their own. Although now widely used in U.S. high school physics, biology and earth-science courses, and heartily endorsed by university-based educational theorists, the method has-perhaps inevitably-come up against the same kind of hostility that faces many another academic reform. In varying degrees, the discovery approach has become a problem for teachers, parents and students alike...
...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 if the teacher is on fire will his class really light up," says Los Angeles Schools' science curriculum supervisor, Robert McLaren...
...third significant change in the new contract requires management to act upon grievances filed by employees within a specified number of days. The old contract said "within a reasonable amount of time." "This way there can be no hang-up by either party; no stalling tactics can be used," Richardson said...