Word: overcrowdedness
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A sizable increase in the number of students returning early from leaves of absence is playing havoc with already overcrowded rooming arrangements this fall.
Britain spends less than half as much per capita on education as the U.S. One result: in proportion of university students to population, Britain ranks 25th among all countries, behind Spain, for example, and even Bulgaria. Another result is such a severe shortage of teachers in Britain's overcrowded...
Feeling that the public is behind them, teachers are devising countermeasures for the opening of school in two weeks. Many plan to balk at supervising extracurricular activities, to refuse to teach overcrowded classes or to conduct and grade examinations. Even a nationwide strike of teachers is being talked about. "I...
Take a working-class family living in a grimy, overcrowded urban slum. Move it to a spanking-clean, new garden city, cheerfully designed and well planned, where there are plenty of lawns, light and airy schools, spacious, rainproof shopping centers, no heavy traffic to menace the children. Would the family...
The visitor to East Germany is invariably struck by the overcrowded restaurants. "What else can I do with my money?" explained one diner. "It isn't safe to save it, since you never know when they are going to change the currency or ask all of those with money...