Description: John Silber considers bilingual education and too small budget as problems in Chelsea public schools. Proposes to make that school system a laboratory for BU School of Education.
Description: Math professor at BU School of Education teaches college students methods to impart lessons effectively to elementary students. She endorses collaboration with Chelsea schools.
Description: Brookline Town Meeting votes not to allow tobacco industry lobbyist to speak, and to ban cigarette vending machines. High school students smoking.
Description: Residents of Belchertown State School, which is about to close, were often misdiagnosed and institutionalized too long. Ruth Sinkiewicz-Mercer. Cerebral palsy, mental retardation. School grounds.
Description: “Benjamin Franklin” visits City Council to advise on disposition of money left to Boston in his will. Franklin Institute technical school exterior and classroom. David Scondras, Charles Yancey.
Description: Billy Joel video "We Didn't Start the Fire," filled with quick images of cultural history, will be shown in middle and high schools. Students are quizzed on name recognition of famous figures. Classroom.
Description: Boston Latin School twelfth grade US history class of white and Asian students. In racially mixed seventh grade Latin class, students conjugate verbs. “First Year Latin” textbook.