Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little impulse leads to another. Police stormed into the campus of Brasilia to arrest five students wanted for "subversion." The cops cracked heads as they moved from classroom to lab. Rising in Congress to protest the police conduct, Márcio Moreira Alves, one of the few remaining opposition Deputies, proposed a public boycott of the Independence Day military parades. Duly insulted by this, the Ministers of the Army, Air Force and Navy then moved, with President Costa e Silva's assent, to cashier Alves for abusing "his political rights." To some observers, it looked like the first step...
...school's faction-torn faculty. Then Shanker shattered Donovan's efforts by barging into one of the meetings, and demanding that the union should be represented. Donovan gave up, ordered the school reopened and gave its principal the right to assign the challenged teachers to non-classroom chores. With that, Shanker called for a strike. Only 8,000 of the U.F.T.'s 55,000 members bothered to vote to approve a walkout, but most of them dutifully stayed away from class. A U.F.T. rally outside City Hall drew a surprising 40,000 supporters, who paraded with signs...
...schools do "a hell of a lot more" for all students, but to "shape the educational environment" by building alliances between teachers and the rest of the labor movement. "A lot of things we're trying to do for kids can't be done in the classroom. Kids who come to school without any breakfast aren't going to learn one damn thing. We do more for them through the civil rights movement and the labor movement by affecting the context of their lives." An active integrationist, Shanker was a charter member of CORE, and joined protests...
About 200 University of California at Berkeley students barricaded themselves inside a classroom and office building Wednesday evening...
Last spring, the City government was divided over whether to build the relocatable classrooms, or to adopt the supposedly less expensive course of scattering the Houghton children throughout other City schools for the next two years. Proponents of the relocatable classroom plan argued that it would keep the Houghton children together for the period, preserving the "unique spirit of the school...