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...also wanted to cut some teachers' sick days from ten to five a year and reduce the number of their preparation periods. Most elementary teachers have two 45-minute prep periods a week; high school teachers have five. Shanker admitted that prep periods, which are nominally intended for schoolwork, are often used by teachers to "smoke, knit and shoot the breeze." But the union refused to compensate for a reduced number of teachers by raising maximum class sizes above the 32 students for elementary school, 33 for junior high and 34 for high school as stipulated...
...this stuff--I grew up a couple of miles from Shea Stadium, named for a hotshot New York lawyer, ultramodern, no bleachers. General Admission filled with clean-cut cheerful-looking kids whose mothers encouraged them to play at Little League, but just so it didn't interfere with their schoolwork. I got my wallet stolen, once, and my program lots of times--but after all I never really scored properly, S's for singles and O's for outs, so that seemed only fair, apart from the thieves' being bigger and stronger than I was. Maybe things are changing...
Last week Wong had not started his schoolwork for this semester, and had over 100 pages of papers to write by the end of the term. But he is convinced that what he has learned from working with the children is just as valuable as his formal education. "Harvard is not a place to develop a social consciousness," he says. "After four years here and some more at grad school, you can't go out and help people. It develops with time spent working with people...
Marglin almost didn't get by at first. He played freshman football behind a high school all American, and his schoolwork those first few months was "uniformly sad, if not disastrous. I just didn't have any notion of how to write a paper or anything like that." He realized that of his two collapsing careers, only his academics were salvageable, so after football ended his work improved dramatically. But the adjustment period was painful, and Marglin, who says he has never made friends easily, remembers his freshman year as "pretty dismal in almost every...
...year and are growing in the U.S. alone at the rate of 400% annually. As prices drop (one model was selling for only $22 last week), consumers are snapping them up to check cost-per-unit prices at the supermarket, balance checkbooks, figure out tax returns and do their schoolwork. But all work and no play makes even a calculator a dull gimmick, and now the little machines can be used as electronic Merlins...