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...sure countless U.S. educators were dismayed with TIME'S discussion of "Standards for Noah's Ark?" [March 16] pleading for increased federal quasi-control of public schools. Rickover missed the point, i.e., our commitment to principles of Jeffersonian democracy and the local wisdom and dedication that have produced American public schools second to none without benefit of a national curriculum. The solution to the U.S. education crisis is not through variations of reform conjured up by a Washington, D.C., elite. Reform must stem from the opposite direction. Provide tax assistance to deprived areas, but spare them Rickover...
...thought "Standards for Noah's Ark?" was an excellent unbiased roundup of a complex and urgent problem in U.S. education...
More than any other nation, the U.S. has made local control the key fact of its school system. The result is what James B. Conant calls a "Noah's Ark" of edu cation - a happy confusion of 35,300 in dependent school systems, in which stand ards vary so widely that an A grade in one school may be worth a D in another...
Fort Smith, Ark...
Every town in the U.S. is famous for something-just go there and ask. Mountain View, Ark. (pop. 983), makes its proudest claim as the birthplace of three businesslike brothers who have long since fled Mountain View. Luther and Howard Powell are minor captains of industry, having hewed their way directly to vice-presidencies of International Harvester and the Illinois Central Railroad. Richard took a more circuitous route, first becoming a song-and-dance man, then a movie idol, next a bullet-voiced private eye, before settling down as one of the major-and sharpest-businessmen in U.S. television...