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Over the past year Maryland's Montgomery County has enlisted 38 schools in an antiabuse curriculum of classroom talk about the body and different kinds of touching, including a spooky film vignette of a boy lying in bed crying as a man's voice says not to tell or the man will go to jail. In Cook County, Ill., the sheriffs department has presented a three-day abuse-prevention program to as many as 8,000 youngsters and is booked solid by area schools through 1986. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, the professional Illusion Theater Co. has reached more...
Among the first to speak out strongly in the classroom was Uncle Harry, who came to life in 1978 in a model program titled the Child Assault Prevention Project (CAP); it was Iput together by a fledgling group on shoestring grants for schools in Columbus after a local second-grader was raped. The heart of the CAP program, and others that have followed or paralleled it, is a series of playlets | designed so that children and leaders can handle the roles and then talk out the tricky nuances of abuse. For the youngest children, rag dolls are used as stand...
...children who moved to a new school probably experience an "anticipatory anxiety" associated with the change, while the children left behind may not have been affected until they were struck by changes in the classroom group and constant reminders at school of departed friends...
Going to school via television used to be typically a matter of waking up with the chickens for a session of Sunrise Semester. But the TV classroom has left the chickens-and the sunrise-far behind. This fall, housebound students can examine issues in constitutional law under the guidance of such authorities as retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and former President Gerald Ford. They can also study the workings of the human brain, thanks to a lavish $6 million series that for dramatic impact rivals anything on St. Elsewhere. Best of all, they can do it in prime time...
Obviously, video learnning lacks the advantages of live classroom give-and-take. But the professors are topflight, the courses of study use the latest research, and the schedules are rigorous. "You have to be a highly self-disciplined person to take a telecourse," asserts John Flanagan, associate dean for nontraditional studies at Eastern Kentucky University, which is offering two of the Annenberg courses for credit this fall. "They go on whether you can study or not, whether you're sick or out of town. They're relentless...