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...alternative to demonstrations and a progressive achievement that can't be lost," Clifton said. He predicted that the 200 fourth-graders selected for the project would make several years of progress in verbal skills...
...Clifton explained that students entering fourth grade were selected for the project because reading deficiencies are first apparent when formal verbal instruction stops. "The minute you stop teaching them how to read, the kids start falling behind," he said...
...Human, rather than civil rights" will be at issue this summer when 20 Harvard and Miles College students begin a cooperative, pioneer program to tutor Birmingham elementary school pupils, Jen W. Clifton '63 said yesterday...
...Clifton, director of the PBH Birmingham Volunteer Teaching Project, said that ten Harvard volunteers and ten students from Miles, Birmingham's municipal Negro college, will receive one or two hours a week of training in teaching remedial reading between now and June. Transcribed tapes of weekly Harvard classes will be sent to Miles to insure uniform preparation...
...Clifton noted that Cliffies will participate for the first time this year in a program which offers the only tenth grade instruction at Lyman...