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...TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD, Cation...
...first obstacle is the education "establishment" - a complex of education professors and National Education Association groups that guide state edu cation departments in setting certification rules, which in turn dictate college curriculums. In recent years the establishment has tightened the rules - nobly, it believes - to stress subject matter and a trend toward five years of teacher training. But this is not necessarily an improvement, says Conant. The same education courses remain, while the establishment, with "frightening rigidity," endorses only "approved programs" -most of them academically anemic...
Planned Blessings. China's future depends largely upon the pillars of the party: the army and the students. From all three must come the skills and dedi cation needed to deal with the staggering problems posed by overpopulation and underproduction. At the top of the pyramid is Chairman Mao Tse-tung, whom the party acknowledges to be omnipotent and incapable of mistakes. The people are endlessly told that Mao is the sun, the lodestar, the living Buddha, and he is said to be far greater "than the empty, hypocritical and negative Jesus Christ." Peasants are taught to sing...
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...
...forces that influence school boards include regional accrediting agencies, teach ers colleges, textbook publishers and the National Education Association. Specific regulations accompany present federal aid, such as those long set for vocational edu cation under the Smith-Hughes Act. The great foundations pour millions into educational TV and radical school designs, prodding schools to improve. Even that stout defender of local control, James...