Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performance is not altogether bad, and in some areas is looking up sharply. Four short years ago, for example, there was only a single public high school in all Micronesia; today there are eight. In addition, 325 new elementary classrooms have been built, so that some 20,000 Micronesian children are receiving U.S.-sponsored education; another 5,500 are in missionary schools operated by U.S. Catholics and Protestants. Many of the schools are manned by the 600 Peace Corpsmen who work throughout the islands-a massive invasion in per capita terms that was ordered by President Johnson...
...large statues of couples engaged in various normal and aberrant sex acts. The court broke no new ground, but neither did it give the lie to the often-repeated prediction that it will eventually allow virtually any publication or motion picture, so long as it is not sold to children, sold in a pandering manner, or sold in such a way that it intrudes upon the individual's right of privacy...
...from being sadistic punishment, the application of force and shouted commands is the Reading Research Foundation's way of helping children with normal intelligence who simply cannot learn to read adequately. Most of those who attend the weekly after-school clinics at the foundation are victims of dyslexia (TIME, May 13, 1966), a catchall term describing children who suffer from slight brain damage or inherited neurological handicaps that interfere with their control over both motor and sensory functions. Some are hyperactive-any kind of stimulation distracts them, makes them restless. Others withdraw into a shell, have trouble expressing themselves...
Walking on Clouds. The foundation's shock technique attempts to jar the children into attention and keep them from being distracted. Administrative Director S. Willard Footlik explains that the degree of force is fitted to the needs of each pupil and contends that "the children realize we aren't yelling at them because we're mad at them." The commands, he says, are always something the children are capable of carrying out-and when they do, "they walk on clouds because they have succeeded." The harsh drills are designed to help the children to control their actions...
...three years old, the nonprofit foundation handles up to 350 children in each eleven-week term. Most have been referred by Chicago area schools, psychologists or social agencies. School officials report that children who take the training often double their rate of learning; Footlik claims that the clinic so far has not failed to improve the reading ability of any child who sticks with the drills long enough. No one yet knows, however, whether the bullying technique has harmful long-range effects on personality development. James Weddell, director of Purdue University's Achievement Center for Children, says some...