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Parker has one teacher for every eleven students, a fulltime psychologist and 25 part-time teaching assistants. Pay is not high-the lure is freedom in teaching. Specializing in one subject, Parker's teachers get a chance to cover it at many levels. Barr McCutcheon teaches algebra to fifth-graders and transfinite arithmetic to seniors, for example, and McCutcheon need not bother with standard math texts-"a bore." "For an educator, this is heaven," says Principal Thomas, who notes that 36 teachers applied for a single vacancy in the history department this spring...
...Columbia center, a 28-man professional staff is busily taping half-hour lessons in algebra, geometry, physical science, French, and South Carolina history. The actors are fulltime teachers, who spend six to eight hours developing each lesson, often going out to classrooms to review their own performance. Besides salaries, they get fees that can boost their income to $10,000 a year...
...students typically watch the TV lesson for 30 minutes, then spend 15 minutes discussing it. One result: the bottom two-thirds of this year's students recently tested higher than the median of last year's separate classes. Even more impressive, the statewide median scores of TV algebra students have precisely matched the median at such top prep schools as Andover and Exeter...
...R.O.T.C., drill is confined to Saturday mornings in warm weather. Hazing is nonexistent; newcomers are plebes for only one term, are obliged only to call old students "Mr." More important are Culver's stiff entrance exams (average cadet IQ: 120) and drill in such matters as college algebra, Latin and Russian. Often recruited from Culver's resoundingly successful summer camp, the boys seem to thrive on the school's theory that esprit de corps enhances the spirit of study. "I didn't know how to work at home," says one first-classman. "Here you learn...
...year-old struggling with French and algebra, the college professor caught up in academic trivia, the parent getting a loan to pay tuition, even for a nation that would think clearly through threat and danger, education's main goals frequently get obscured by education's trappings. Last week John Kennedy, at his best in grace and spontaneous eloquence, defined the educated man's duties to his country as the President sees them...