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...students should spend 60 to 70 per cent of their classroom time on "solid" academic subjects, Conant urges. Seventh and eighth grades should study English with stress on reading and composition, social science with stress on geography and history, and mathematics and general science...
Switch Talker. On his own behalf, Jânio Quadros has gone to extreme and confusing lengths to promote images of himself calculated to please everyone. He has also switched from the name-calling, highly personal campaign style that carried him in seven years from a high school classroom (where he taught history, geography and Portuguese literature) to the governorship of São Paulo, Brazil's richest, most powerful state. As Governor, he spent liberally on public works that now support the nation's most bustling industrial complex (steel, automobiles, appliances)-but also got rid of some...
...modern U.S. schoolhouse has a vastly bigger job. All under one bulging school system, Americans now demand kindergartens, big-time football, classroom TV and junior colleges. They want summer sessions for the gifted, special teachers for the retarded, night classes for the aged. The air-conditioned hive that serves this honey must house carpentry shops and physics laboratories, a hall for the town meeting, and perhaps a swimming pool that adults can use too. It must impress like a monument-and be as cheap as a summer cottage. It is running out of space, money and teachers...
Giant Half Step. Geared to college-bound students, Wayland has a Trumplike curriculum. The typical student will spend 10% of his time in seminars, 80% in the conventional classroom, 10% in large lecture-discussions. With team teaching and an adviser for every 20 students, each student will be encouraged to go as far as he can in each field. A bright youngster may pick up broad principles in group discussions, carry them further in seminars, use the "resource areas" to dig in on his own, and wind up with advanced standing in college...
...persons. Flush with the ground, the 18-in. concrete roof will be a basketball court and a fallout filter. The two wells used for air conditioners can supply emergency drinking water. The lunch room will be stocked with a 14-day food supply, and cupboards throughout the 18-classroom building will contain 970 cots. Abo will also have a two-way radio, underground phone lines, radiation-measuring instruments, provisions for fire fighting, garbage disposal and a morgue...