Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Schreiber, in explaining the philosophy behind the Project, often enjoys telling one particular anecdote. "It's a story Sam Levenson sometimes tells. It seems that one day his brother goes up to his father and says 'Dad, I want to go to college.' So the old man stops for a...
Most students who join the Project enter it in the seventh grade. "This is the age," Schreiber feels, "when a kid begins to get a general idea of his vocational plans." Only the top fifty per cent of the students in each school, selected on the basis of I.Q. and...
"Our first problem is to give these kids a worthwhile self-image of themselves. We want to make them feel that they have what it takes to go to college and be want they want to be. There are several devices we use to accomplish this. For one thing we...
"We also have an extensive guidance program. We meet with the parents and with the kids, both individually and in groups. We talk to them about different kinds of vocations and we take them to places like hospitals, laboratories, and nursing schools so they can see what different professions are...
"Another big problem," Schreiber explained, "is to give these youngsters cultural experiences of the sort most middle class kids get from their families. We take them to museums, concerts, plays and sometimes we even get the conductor or lead actor to talk to them. We try to make each visit...