Word: homeroom
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...quite an affair--for days everyone filled out order forms during homeroom for red (love), pink (secret admirer) and white (friendship) carnations, and mused over sappy messages to wrap around the (by the time they got to you) withering little flowers...
...service is using computers and interactive video in new grammar-school courses that are designed to advance critical-thinking skills. In a program currently under development in Brookline, Mass., students play reporters who "investigate" a story from classical mythology under the direction of a computerized editor and their homeroom teacher. Then the youngsters write a story on what they have discovered. ETS is also working with computers to redesign the National Teachers Exam, used in 34 states to license prospective educators. The company's proposed test for fifth-grade math teachers would measure not only the exam takers' knowledge...
Perhaps one of the most time-honored traditions is the summer reading list, and my prep school was probably the number one upholder of this tradition. My school was determined, no matter what, to keep the summer reading list as strong an institution as homeroom and lousy cafeteria lunches...
Each year come June, I would receive two sheets of paper: a letter from the headmaster, and a form with seven numbered dotted lines and a blank at the top for one's name, date and homeroom teacher. The letter was really a rah-rah sort of message filled with inspiring, profound phrases on the importance of reading. In it were also a few handy suggestions on how to best squeeze in the time for reading during those fun-packed days of summer. One such tip urged us to schedule a half hour to read before going to bed each...
Blessed with a sweetly impudent face, Chuckie looks like the kind of kid a homeroom teacher would put in charge of the class when she had to leave the room. But the I.R.A. is never far from his mind and suffuses nearly everything ! he does. Chuckie delivers the pro-I.R.A. Republican News on his paper route and twirls a baton at the head of an Irish Republican marching band. I.R.A. men in the neighborhood all know him. Chuckie comes from a long line of I.R.A. fighters, from his grandfather, who fought the British in the 1930s, to four...