Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occupy the podium, joined in recognition of the expertly executed place, and only regretted that he "had to have his back to it" most of the time. This respect for art did not prevent the Dean from ordering its removal by the end of the fourth lecture in the classroom...
...final scene, the children raise frank questions about the animated film, which the teacher answers. The movie ends on an intentionally abrupt note, to suggest that there are other questions left unasked and unanswered. Professor Beck has prepared a classroom manual to get the Oregon teachers past the toughest questions...
When New Mexico became a state in 1912, the area around Santa Fe was predominantly Roman Catholic. As more Protestants moved in, there was more & more grumbling about nuns (on the state payroll) still doing much of the teaching in the public schools, and about classroom crucifixes and catechisms (TIME, Sept. 29). Last week Protestant resentment finally led to a state court suit filed by 28 taxpayers who demanded that "all members of Catholic teaching orders be declared ineligible and forever barred" from New Mexico public schools...
...prostrate enemy, they broke into the schoolhouse, whirled through classrooms, smashing pictures, vases, chairs, and lamps. They tipped over bookcases, tore up maps, scattered papers, threw books out the windows. They went to the principal's office, threw ink over the walls, smashed up a radio, a phonograph and every record in the room. At the end, they went back to a classroom and wrote on a blackboard: "I'm sorry we had to do it," and "Too bad-from the people who done...
...Board of Education released a glowing report on an experiment in outdoor education. Last summer, the board had sent 62 fifth-and seventh-graders to a LIFE camp in the lake-&-woodlands of New Jersey. Unlike previous LIFE camps, which have been holidays, this one was on classroom time...