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blackboard jungle



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Clearly, discussions of Clark's approach to taming the blackboard jungle run high with emotion.

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Whether it is blackboard jungle, red-tape jumble, a place of learning or a collective holding pen for the hapless young, the modern classroom, teachers claim, is out of teachers' control.

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A British expedition into the blackboard jungle, with Sidney Poitier investing a fine and subtle warmth into the role of a starchy teacher in a slum school.

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In the air-conditioned calm of office cubicles, grey-flanneled young Ph.D.s sit sipping coffee and chalking abstruse formulas on a blackboard jungle of schoolmasters' slates.

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Only four years ago, Washington High would have matched most people's Hollywood image of the blackboard jungle.

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