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...high schools. Someone suggested setting up a school that would use such cultural facilities as museums and libraries for classrooms. Since many of them are located on tree-shaded Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the project was forthwith dubbed the Parkway Program. To run it, the board hired John Bremer, a 42-year-old British educator who had been head of a community-controlled school district in New York...
...Location. Bremer briskly set about expanding the program far beyond its original blueprint. He established an auto-mechanics class in an auto-repair shop, a leatherworking class in a leather shop, a journalism course at the offices of the Evening Bulletin, and dozens of others that are taught on location...
More important in Bremer's eyes, he has reorganized the entire administration of a public high school. He has split the school into three self-governing units and set up a weekly "town meeting" for each unit between students and faculties. Together, they discuss the curriculum, the students proposing to teachers what they want to know, the teachers explaining to students what they need to know. Classes often mix ages, with ninth-grade students, for example, being challenged by mingling with high school seniors. No marks are given. Instead, teachers write an evaluation of each student's work...
...JOHN L. BREMER...
...Boehme's wife and, until she was ejected from the courtroom by Judge Hardyn Soule for an intemperate outburst, seldom let go of her husband's hand or lost her demurely trusting smile. The mistress in this case was Wanda Ostby, 30, a comely housewife from nearby Bremer ton, whose testimony seemed genuine despite a tigerskin coat that plainly was not. Wanda had been one of Boehme's patients until, she said, she visited his office one day and "he no longer looked at me professionally...