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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arithmetic, history and geography. She has also added Spanish and violin lessons. "Mary," she insists, "has done very well under my program." William Cheney has another set of complaints. For one thing, says he, "the school board insists that we have no authority over our daughter Steffanie once the child has been left at the school grounds." Besides, "standards are all too low, if you can determine a standard at all. Steffanie enjoys doing her work speedily, and the sense of accomplishment resulting from it. The child is eager to learn, but at school she was being forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Rebels | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...released, decided to appeal her case and keep Mary out of school until the circuit court takes action. Meanwhile, Missouri's other rebel also still had his daughter at home. Unlike Mrs. Schoenheit, William Cheney has a Missouri certificate to teach, and Missouri law requires only that a child receive the equivalent of a public-school education. Unless the authorities find that Steffanie is not getting that education, Cheney can have his way indefinitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Rebels | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...their showing has nothing to do with native intelligence, but is only the result of inferior background and schooling. "The conclusion is inescapable that any decision to use differences of the average achievement of the two racial groups as a basis for classifying in advance any individual child, Negro or white, is scientifically unjustified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Born. To Feiho Ikeda, 26, crew member of the Japanese fishing boat Fortunate Dragon, which was dusted with radioactive fallout (1954) after a U.S. H-bomb test in the Marshall Islands, and his wife Setsuko Ikeda, 23: a son, described as healthy and normal, the first child born to any of the 22 survivors (one crewman died). Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Born. To Debbie Reynolds, 24, teen-ageing cinemactress (The Catered Affair), and Eddie Fisher, 28, curly-headed jukebox nightingale (7 Believe): a daughter, their first child; in Burbank, Calif. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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