Word: alphabetization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spaghetti & IQ. Such underestimation, says Mayer, is appallingly prevalent. The Denver school system, for example, officially "does not expect 'knowledge of order of alphabet' until junior high school." In general, the junior high seventh grade is deliberately easier than sixth grade so that everybody can "catch up." Sample class plan in New York City: "Industrial arts. Boys and girls wear aprons and hats; prepare spaghetti luncheon and eat it." As for bright children, grade-skipping is widely disapproved on grounds of "mental health." The approved practice is "enrichment"-not real digging at math or mythology but puerile "current...
...Massachusetts legislature with a one-minute speech ("I have no business talking to such a group of important men"), took time off from rehearsals for her International Revue to talk about a book she is writing: Marlene Dietrich's ABC's. Under each letter of the alphabet, Marlene will write about subjects that concern her. "I'm going to put President Kennedy in the book under Y and not K," she said. "For youth, you know." But writing comes hard to Marlene. "I've talked to Hemingway and everybody who knows about this problem of getting...
...suggests Manhattan Psychologist Victor Goertzel, president of the National Association for Gifted Children. By studying the lives of 350 well-known people, Goertzel, 46, is trying to discover what kind of families breed the species. From the first 77 cases-he is methodically working through the alphabet-Psychologist Goertzel reports, in The Gifted Child Quarterly, that...
...wife and mother of five, Teacher Joralemon began the school three years ago in her big Berkeley home, and used every minute of each 2½-hour school day to teach. Bouncing from piano to blackboard, she taught letters with rhymes ("A,B,C,D,E,F,G" Alphabet for you and me" ), soon had tots answering the roll in alphabetical order. At midmorning lunch, she used the French words for utensils, picked a "mother" and "father" to police manners at each table. Instead of wasting the legally required rest period, she said: "Now we are pigeons, and we make...
...Brothers. Flabbergasted, one child's parents spent a weekend carving big wooden blocks like those on the required list, donated them to the school. Unsatisfied, welfare officials continued to denounce Teacher Joralemon's educational philosophy. Teaching tots the alphabet too early, they insist, may lead to "acne and personality problems in adolescence." The school cannot legally open next month-unless Mrs. Joralemon changes her ways. Last week one of her stoutest supporters, famed Chemist Joel Hildebrand of the University of California, appealed to the state's Advisory Commission on Education. "Big Brothers grow ever bigger and bigger...