Word: springly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...most frequent accusations of half the nation's parents, who complain that students get "less schoolwork" now than 20 years ago. Whether the parent perceptions are fair or not, there is no doubt that circumstances have certainly changed some teacher attitudes. At a Miami senior high school this spring, one social studies teacher asked his pupils whether their homework was completed. Half the students said no. The teacher recorded their answers in his gradebook but never bothered to collect the papers. Says the teacher, who has been in the profession for 15 years and has now become dispirited...
...This spring the first national conference on teacher burnout was held in New York City. Surprisingly, the syndrome seems nearly as common in small towns and well-off suburbs as in big cities. The National Education Association has already held more than 100 local workshops round the country to help teachers cope with the problem, which University of California Social Psychologist Ayala Pines defines as "physical, emotional and attitudinal exhaustion." Last March, Stress Consultant Marian Leibowitz held a burnout seminar in Edwardsville, Ill. (pop. 11,982). It drew a paying audience of 250 to a hall big enough for only...
...Interest rates continued to slide almost as rapidly as they went up last winter and early spring. Major banks reduced their prime rate on business loans to 13%, far below the unheard-of peak of 20% reached in April. Fundamentally, that is a note of cheer: the decline will make it easier for consumers to finance purchases of houses and cars and for businesses to build new plants. But not much easier: the rates are still higher than any reached before 1979. And the speed and depth of the drop shows how abruptly the high rates choked off the business...
...thirds going to individuals and one-third to businesses, though Schultze for one would prefer increasing business's share in order to prompt job-stimulating investment. In Washington, there is some speculation that the President will not even wait until fall to propose a cut, but will spring it on Congress within the next month-before the Republican convention meets in Detroit July...
Three volunteers at Duke University in Durham, N.C., set a world record this spring when they spent 28 days in a pressure tank to simulate a dive 2,132ft. into the sea. To raise money for the American Heart Association, Ohio State University students played a 4,378-seat game of musical chairs last month and broke the old record of 3,728 chairs...