Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kindergarten and the first grade, the teacher is supposed to know as much or more about each pupil as the child's mother. She must learn about his interests and his problems, check on whether he can follow directions, see that his sight and hearing are normal, observe how he reacts to his classmates and whether he is overly diffident in "social situations." Of 100 cases of reading disability, Paul Witty once found that 14% had defective vision, 12% were in poor health, 3% had poor hearing. But more important than these physical handicaps were the mental ones: lack...
Knottiest Problem. By the end of his first-reader period, a child should have a reading vocabulary of 400 to 600 sight words; by the end of the sixth, 7,200 to 8,500. But some will have more and some many less, and this brings the teacher hard up against one of the knottiest problems in modern education. "I was in one rural school," says Superintendent Paul West of Fulton County, Ga.. "where there were 17 children in one class with IQs ranging from 48 to 152." Reading ability varies accordingly. In 1944, St. Louis found that...
...suburban Wheaton, 22 miles west of Chicago, a similar crusade is on. Explains one angry mother: "They teach the beginning and ending consonants of each word well into the first grade-and I mean well into the first grade-and they expect the child to sort out the vowels for himself. I didn't send my child to school to guess at the vowels. I sent him there to be taught the vowels." The mother is now awaiting the school board election next month. "Then," says she, "we're going to lower the boom...
...race meant more to [Pollard] than it did to Howard," as Alexander tells it. "He'd just been married a few months before, [his wife] was carrying her first child, and he was flat broke. He'd get at least...
...year's end, with U.S. personal debts at $800 for every man, woman and child in the nation, many businessmen shook their heads over credit's spectacular rise. Warned Salt Lake City Banker Walter E. Cosgriff: "Almost everyone is aware that if you increase the amount of steam required to pull a locomotive, you'd better be careful, or you'll blow the thing up." No one was more aware of this than the U.S. Government's monetary and fiscal experts. From the start, the Federal Reserve Board under Chairman William Mc-Chesney Martin kept...