Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quack, Quack." Since the 1920s, most American schoolchildren have been taught to memorize the "appearance" of words, one after another, like Chinese characters, without reference to the sounds of the individual letters that make up each word. By this "word method," largely developed at teachers colleges and schools of education, children must plow through endless illustrated stories, in which words are repeated over and over. Sample text...
...tests-the explosion of an "atomic device" atop a 500-ft. tower. On the first scheduled test day, weather calculations showed that the radioactive cloud from a dawn explosion would be passing over the town of Caliente, Nev. (pop. 1,000), about 50 miles away, at about the time schoolchildren were standing on the street corners waiting for buses. For the next three days, there were similar problems. Actually, the AEC did not think that the tests would produce dangerous fallout, but they had to think of public reaction. Said one atomic expert: "We're interested in minimizing...
...wake of considerable parental protest, the Washington, D.C. school board was considering a move to abandon the school system's gradeless type of modern report card for elementary schoolchildren. If the move goes through, a pupil will no longer be competing only with himself for such vague comments as "satisfactory," "outstanding," or "needs much improvement." Instead, he will be expected to perform the work for the grade he is in-and get the old-fashioned A, B, C, D or U (for unsatisfactory...
Where it couldn't cram its surpluses down foreign gullets, the U.S. seemed determined to force-feed its own. President Eisenhower, taking a tip from Lacto-phile Pierre Mendès-France, announced that the nation's armed forces and schoolchildren were going to get more milk. Benson urged the nation to eat more eggs. With U.S. hens laying 270 million more eggs in January than the record nestful of a year ago, Benson had reason to be alarmed. "Besides being friendly to your budget," cackled an urgent Agriculture Department brochure, "eggs are friendly...
...humanity, but it is a very difficult business deciding what human beings have won the race of life, whereas it is fairly easy to see which people can be classified in ending last." The society's answer: a hand-picked cross section of England's most promising schoolchildren, aged 8 to 13, who are endowed with exceptional scholastic ability, good fellowship and fondness for sport...