Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...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 reading scores, are admitted to the program. These, organized into separate "Project" classes, then become Schreiber's particular concern...
...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 like...
...themselves. We teach them reading skills, for instance--how to skim, how to read a science book as opposed to a novel, thinks like that. We also try to get them to read as much as possible outside of school. We have what we call a 'Readers Are Leaders' program. If a student reads six outside books he gets a button, like a Boy Scout merit badge, which says 'Reader'; then if he reads twelve books he gets another badge with 'Leader...
...forth, but the signs of University Hall interest are encouragingly great. The disturbing fact, particularly for the ten per cent of the senior class that has expressed a desire to participate, is that time will soon run out, if the University wants to start some sort of small scale program next fall...
...nations, as Elliot Berg (another local peace corps sponsor) has said, need "teachers, not doers," and this is precisely what the University's program would provide--as the individual nation wants them and is willing to pay their salaries. The University's financial participation would probably be limited to indoctrination and travel expenses. Representatives of Western Nigeria and Kenya have expressed interest in the plan on this basis...