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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spain - a punishment far harsher than a few months in jail. And last month, for the first time in history, the grey-uniformed security cops, whom Spaniards call los grises, defied centuries of university tradition by entering a Madrid University classroom building to break up an "unauthorized" student meeting...
...colleges, clubs, church groups and other organizations in the U.S. and Canada. Prime purpose of the test is to serve as one of the free teaching aids we distribute monthly, from September through May, to the more than 5,000 teachers now enrolled in the TIME Education Program, our classroom service that makes TIME available to high schools and colleges at reduced prices...
That is expecting a lot-but the schools are making more progress than anyone has a right to hope for. For one thing, many of them do not look like jails any more. Often set in wooded hills, their small residential cottages spaced around a main administration and classroom building, they bear a surface resemblance to private prep schools. Many have open gates, unlocked doors, barless windows that lift easily...
...Threats. The approach to education is similarly less harsh. While classroom attendance is normally compulsory, teachers do not browbeat the boys into studying. "As soon as you crack down on them, they just freeze," explains a teacher at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles. The kids have to be stimulated to learn, rather than threatened. "Threats are useless," contends Sam Jones, a teacher at the Fred C. Nelles School for Boys in Whittier, Calif. "These kids have been threatened by masters...
Kissing & Petting. One of the frankest sex programs is that of the Washington, D.C., schools, where the course outline encourages teachers to stimulate classroom discussions on "the natural emotional responses related to kissing and petting." Eighth-Grade Teacher Bernard Dory deftly handles such queries as "Is it O.K. to have intercourse while the girl is having her period?" (His answer: intercourse during menstruation is possible, but many consider it unclean.) The need for plain talk is shown by the appalling misinformation some Washington youngsters bring to the course. At least once a year Teacher Effie Jones is asked...