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...colleagues are busily doing the same for elementary school science. Astronomy starts in fourth grade in East Whittier, Calif., and geometry in second grade in Burlingame. Calif. At San Francisco's Herbert Hoover Junior High School, which last year had 14-year-olds earning college credits in math. 40 of this year's seventh-graders will be so well started that once they get to college they may get M.A.s in math before they graduate...
...numerous musical competitions while also acting at the Cleveland Playhouse. He also painted; Washington's National Gallery owns some of his work. In high school, he won third prize at the National Science Fair for building a symbolic logic computer. At Kenyon College ('60), he majored in math...
Faubus is running in the primaries against five other Democrats, and the two who are giving him trouble are both old Faubus allies. One is moderate Sid Mc-Math, Governor from 1949 to 1953, who broke with Faubus over the Little Rock episode; the other is Congressman Dale Alford, a strong segregationist who had filed for his candidacy under the impression that Faubus would not run (Faubus' ulcer was kicking up) and is now campaigning against Faubus' long incumbency and against integration as well. Caught between the two, Faubus shrewdly decided to chuck segregation as a dead issue...
...problem by competence in either a foreign language or in mathematics, and along this line might be put in there seems to be little current demand for more math instruction. The requirement might just be raised, the placement tests and the level to be passed. At least one year of foreign literature might...
...assistants. Pay is not high-the lure is freedom in teaching. Specializing in one subject, Parker's teachers get a chance to cover it at many levels. Barr McCutcheon teaches algebra to fifth-graders and transfinite arithmetic to seniors, for example, and McCutcheon need not bother with standard math texts-"a bore." "For an educator, this is heaven," says Principal Thomas, who notes that 36 teachers applied for a single vacancy in the history department this spring...