Word: blackboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many educators would like to see the cutoff point raised from the current U.S. average of 5 years 9 months to about 5 years 11 months. They explain that the younger the child the less his chances of adjusting to first-grade work; early failure at the blackboard can induce a defeatist attitude that endures for years. Physically as well as mentally, say the educators, waiting is wise. Studies have shown that four out of five children are still normally farsighted at the age of six, are handicapped in reading until about six months later. But these arguments...
...Florida State's "Math Camp" in Tallahassee, the boys took time for dormitory bridge. One evening David Hackney, 14, of Daytona Beach, after bidding seven spades, laid down his 13 spades. The ensuing uproar was capped when Edward Root, 16, of St. Petersburg, jotted a formula on the blackboard, ran some figures through a table computer, did some paper work and announced that a bridge player could expect such a hand once in 635,013,559,600 deals...
...Blackboard. Most 128 companies stress their academic bent. Their competitive advantage is sheer brainpower-a blackboard, chalk and talent snatched from all across the U.S. They attract many corporation scientists who want to do advance research at local universities-and then they jealously guard these recruits. Said one 128 president: "We don't let our chief scientist out of town without a duenna." At the same time, Route 128 companies draw as part-time consultants the fulltime professors and graduate students who want to put their ideas into action in industry (and to reap its rewards...
...Blackboard Jungle (at the Brattle, today and tomorrow only). This is the juvenile delinquency classic that helped Sidney Poitier and Glenn Ford to stardom...
...Lesson. In Southfield, Mich., High School Teacher Richard Welkenbach keeps discipline by writing on the blackboard, "I'm in a bad mood today," and adding a drawing of a bullwhip...