Word: prekindergarten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bakalis promises to experiment with more plans for individualized, go-at-your-own-speed instruction, a frequently expressed demand at the hearings. In certifying teachers, he intends to play down education courses in favor of monitored teaching experience, including a compulsory one-year internship. He pledges prekindergarten programs (voluntary attendance for ages three and four) in every school district four years hence, new reading centers for adults, better schools for prisoners, new courses in consumer education, and more experiments with a twelve-month school year...
...endorsed the Office of Education's "right to read" program, announced last September, to improve literacy by upgrading research and developing methods of teaching reading skills found to be inadequate among many students. He also asked for a network of experimental centers to study the education of prekindergarten children. On his own authority, Nixon established a Commission on School Finance "to help states and communities to analyze the fiscal plight of their public and nonpublic schools...
...discourage the breakup of families. The commission urges creation of 2,000,000 jobs within three years, with remedial training where necessary. That may be an impossible goal, but it would get at the largest single source of criminal raw material-the out-of-school, out-of-work kids. Prekindergarten, primary and secondary education in the slums is another vast target, but it is universally acknowledged that public education does not do much for ghetto children. One commission proposal that deserves serious consideration is a twelve-month school year for the culturally undernourished...
Hansen sends teams of researchers into the streets to find dropouts, learn why they quit, try to lure them back. Of 1,300 located in one survey, 509 were talked into returning. Each accompanied by a parent, 150 prekindergarten children attend Saturday classes to help prepare for school. Twenty college students prepare for teaching careers by working with 100 potentially delinquent elementary school pupils. An Urban Service Corps recruits 1,000 adult volunteers, including such Government wives as Mrs. Robert McNamara and Mrs. Francis Keppel, to tutor children, take them to historical sites, advise parents...
Heaven for Educators. Parker permits such progressivisms as a science teacher bringing a live cow to class because "city children rarely see one." It shuns conventional marks through the eighth grade. And yet, the school heavily emphasizes the three Rs, beginning in prekindergarten. First-graders read the newspaper, and second-graders get daily drills in public speaking. Science has always been strong; college math and physics have been offered for years...