Word: regularizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...artifacts and fragments have been recovered as evidence of Biskupin's flourishing culture in 550 B.C. Life for the 1,200 or so villagers may have been crude by Greece's golden standards, but it was complete and well organized. The village's regular streets and identical houses must have been laid down as deliberately as any modern Levittown. Each house has the same plan, with an outer vestibule for cattle, pigs, sheep, dogs, and a breed (now extinct) of small horses. Inside are the living quarters-a single, squarish room with a chimneyless fireplace...
...long slighted handicapped students. Though such children are on the increase (because of life-saving modern medicine), the county was typical in having only a small number out of its total 150,000 school students. Along with 1,100 mentally retarded youngsters, the physically handicapped simply went to regular schools. Results were poor, sometimes disastrous...
When Susanne began first grade in a regular school, only her mother's iron persistence kept her there. Ruth Slay drove to the school three times a day-once to deliver Susanne, once to help her go to the cafeteria, finally to bring her home. The child made little progress...
...doctorate in special education. His sprawling domain covers 496 square miles. It has 25 buses that cover 2,500 miles a day, 156 special teachers, and six small buildings. (A recent tax boost will raise three big buildings.) Wirtz is also responsible for speech training (6,000 students) in regular schools, but the handicapped are his chief concern. Says he: "We have the potential for developing the best special-education program in the country...
...wife of an industrial physicist, Teacher Levin is the mother of three sons (aged 6, 10, 12) and a sometime novelist who contributes frequent book reviews to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A University of Wisconsin graduate, she began teaching in Tulsa this year. As a supplement to the regular reading list, e.g., Canterbury Tales, she supplied paperback editions of Catcher because it seemed to her "a beautiful and moving story." It was not required reading...