Word: basal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...below the minimum standard for their ages), reading teachers are also goaded by TV's remarkable series for preschoolers, Sesame Street, whose "graduates" now enter school knowing the alphabet and bored by many traditional reading exercises (TIME cover, Nov. 23). Twenty-five years ago, most schools used three "basal" reading programs of stories and workbooks; today there are 20, three introduced in the past year, each splintered into as many as 250 books, tests and assorted props...