Word: daybook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...origin. The teacher draws back a curtain covering part of the blackboard, disclosing a chart of verbs. Asked to explain where the accent falls in various verb forms, students respond by reciting grammatical rules. Invariably, they answer in complete sentences. Each pupil is graded on his performance in a daybook, a running report that is sent home to be initialed by his parents at the end of every week. The daybook keeps track of misbehavior with notes such as "Created a disturbance in the gym" or "Arrived five minutes late for physical culture...
...pattern of School No. 402-daybook, drill and the use of specialized subject-matter instruction as early as the fourth grade-is repeated in 147,000 "general education" schools across the U.S.S.R. Soviet children go to school six days each week, typically from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The required curriculum generally runs through tenth grade and covers about the same amount of schooling that U.S. students get attending five days a week from kindergarten through twelfth grade. City schools are better than rural schools, but most Soviet students study the same standard curriculum. Usually there is only...