Word: classroom
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...course begins at dawn. After calisthenics and classroom work, the artillerymen are trucked out to the fort's forested hills, turned loose, and told to evade mock aggressor forces patrolling the 7½-sq,-mi. area. Of 133 artillerymen who took the course one day recently, fewer than 30 got away. The rest were marched, often barefoot, to a simulated P.O.W. compound...
...private-school teacher who shuns educational jargon and rejects the notion that either life or learning can be forced into nifty patterns is quietly emerging as one of U.S. education's most damning critics. In his 1964 book, How Children Fail, Teacher John Holt unreeled a series of classroom anecdotes to show that children-beset by teacher-imposed fear, confusion and boredom-merely grope for right answers, rather than understand. In a sequel, How Children Learn, to be published next month, he illustrates the spontaneous ways in which kids embrace knowledge before they enter schools, where they "learn...
...life. It got inquiries from prospective students and interested parents all over the country; since September 1964 its enrollment has increased 50%, from 800 to 1,200. Happily, contributions from supporters have also increased. Since 1964, Clarke has built three new buildings, including a $2.3 million science classroom-laboratory structure which houses a new department of computer sciences that has attracted computer specialists from around the nation to its seminars...
...with anyone who wants to challenge that custom. A Vanderbilt professor surveyed Tennessee's school districts, found that the only change some had made was to let each teacher decide whether or not to read the Bible, and give students a right to step momentarily out of the classroom. In Georgia, Associate Superintendent H. Titus Singletary concedes that most schools in his state have prayer, if only in the form of silent meditation...
...also widespread in rural Bible belt areas of the Midwest. One sur vey, for example, indicates that more than half of the school districts in In diana observe periods of prayer and one-third continue Bible reading. When some parents of children in a Jennison, Mich., school objected to classroom prayer, the school board rejected their complaints. In the Southwest, one count shows that Bible readings were held in 79.9% of the Texas secondary schools, prayers were said in 89.5%. In the East, where 68% of the schools had Bible reading and prayer in 1962, most have abandoned the practice...