Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part where the righteous dwelt was called Paradise. Often translated "Hell" in the New Testament, Gehenna is really derived from the Valley of Hinnom, outside the city of Jerusalem, which was notorious as the place where fires burned to consume refuse and as the scene of ancient child sacrifice...
...striking new landmark: the government-maintained school. More than 4,000 new buildings have risen in the last decade. They are telling symptoms of a quiet revolution wrought by the historic Education Act of 1944. Under the act, British schooling ceased to be an upper-class privilege. Today any child mentally able to make the grade is entitled to a free secondary and university education, a situation unthinkable in caste-bound Britain before World...
...exam is mandatory for every child just past the age of eleven, except for those headed for the public schools such as Eton or Harrow. The exam (English composition, arithmetic, an IQ test) ruthlessly splits youngsters into three groups. The top 20% go to respected pre-university grammar schools; the mechanically minded 4% go to good technical schools. The rest are packed off to low-status secondary modern schools, many convinced that they are failures. The effect is to demoralize the whole system...
...brand-new school near London's fashionable South Kensington, the curb is lined with Bentleys, Jaguars and nannies when classes let out each afternoon. Says one U mother: "If I can get this school's facilities for nothing, why should I pay to send my child to some school in a stuffy converted mansion...
...savings plan-of these, 25% have had "no chance to think about it." The families who do have savings plans (40%) managed to save only a median $150 last year. At that rate, it will take them ten years to save enough for one year of college for one child-at current costs, and last year alone costs jumped 9.5%. Concludes Ford Foundation Vice President Clarence Faust: "American parents apparently need to know more about the economics of higher education...