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Fresh ideas abound for U.S. schools, but spreading them is something else again. According to a Columbia University study, it takes something like 15 years for a new teaching concept to reach 3% of the nation's schools, 50 years for it to reach all of them. Last week a small group of researchers calling itself the Educational Research Council of Greater Cleveland was doing its best to hurry the process for suburban schools around the city...
...Like Reader Whittier, variously removed cousins abound. There are no direct descendants...
...book by typing it lightly on carbon paper after prison authorities ordered him not to write any more for publication. But the No. 1 argument of the spare-Chessman camp is that he has already suffered enough. Such phrases as "long agony" and "legal torture" and "abominable suspense" abound in European editorials on the Chessman case...
Utopian Marriage. "Idea as hero,'' Amis says donnishly, is the basis of much present-day science fiction. Utopias, both Orwellian and benign, abound; one interesting Utopian idea, put forth by Science Fictioneer Robert Sheckley, is a society in which wives are placed in suspended animation and warmed up only when needed, so that they age only one year for every dozen on the calendar...
...Western Comfort. Just as short are good teachers (poor ones abound). Africa's best are often wasted; Makerere's topnotch professors often have classes of only six students when they could be teaching 50. The need is all the more urgent as the European teacher supply dwindles. Example: the Sudan's fine University of Khartoum (enrollment: 1,260), where Britons are leaving the faculty and few Sudanese are replacing them. Fearing lower standards, Khartoum hopes to attract U.S. teachers through exchange programs. The hope may be ephemeral: perhaps 300 U.S. teachers are now in Africa, most...