Word: preschool
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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According to its first report card, prepared by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J. (TIME, Nov. 16). Sesame Street has been sharpening the cognitive skills of poor kids by as much as 62%. In its first series, the show reached almost 7,000,000 preschool children every day, five days a week. The Rubber Duckie Song was on the charts for nine weeks. Big Bird became one of Flip Wilson's first guests. Sesame Street won a Peabody Award, three Emmys and two dozen other prizes for excellence. Former Commissioner of Education James E. Allen saluted the show: President...
...Samantha-fixes-the-plumbing repeats, there has been some tasteful and educational fare. Mr. I Magination took kids on gentle fictional trips, won awardsand lost sponsorship. The science-oriented Mr. Wizard lasted 14 years, was canceled in 1965. Ding Dong School, starring Dr. Frances Horwich, was a gentle, preschool program that provided a nannyish instructor for a babysitter. She, too, became an unreplaced dropout...
...flamboyant, fundamentalist educator Max Rafferty was denied a third term as state superintendent of public instruction. The winner is Rafferty's polar opposite: Wilson Riles, 53, a tall (6 ft. 4 in.), soft-spoken authority on teaching poor children, who talked sense about teacher training and preschool education (TIME, Nov. 2). Riles became the first black ever elected to statewide office in California...
Below Norms. While Rafferty has stressed emotional issues like drugs and busing, Riles concentrates on education. He notes that a recent evaluation showed that statewide gains in reading have still left 65% of the first, second-and third-graders below national norms. His proposed remedy: make a preschool program available to every California child. He also feels that teaching reading mainly through old-fashioned phonics, which Rafferty favors, is oversimple, and that many students can benefit from other methods...
...court will get a full-scale introduction to Women's Lib when it hears the case of Mrs. Ida Phillips, who was denied an assembly-line job at a Martin Marietta Corp. plant in Florida because she was the mother of preschool children. Mrs. Phillips and the Justice Department, in a friend-of-the-court brief, contend that the company violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination against women in employment. In addition, the court will be asked to decide whether the First Amendment wall separating church and state was breached by a recently passed Pennsylvania statute providing...