Word: earthness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Continuing its trip through California, Discovery tours "San Francisco: Harbor of Harbors, Bay of Bays," seeing the waterfront, the Golden Gate Bridge, Nob and Telegraph hills, the Barbary Coast and reminiscing a bit about its fires, earth quakes and gold rush...
...with four Beatitudes, three of them followed by the California rural reality. For example, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (the farm worker's average income is $1,378 a year)." And "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth (the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor has concluded that the impoverishment and misery of the rural poor is 'shocking')." Winding up his proposal, Lorenz described in detail how his already in corporated California Rural Legal Assistance agency would tackle the problem, right down to the precise location...
Cieslik's mode of questioning is the essence of the discovery approach to science (TIME, Dec. 16, 1966), in which Socratic discussion led by a teacher forces students to hit upon conclusions of their own. Although now widely used in U.S. high school physics, biology and earth-science courses, and heartily endorsed by university-based educational theorists, the method has-perhaps inevitably-come up against the same kind of hostility that faces many another academic reform. In varying degrees, the discovery approach has become a problem for teachers, parents and students alike...
...more serious problem is evaluating a child's performance in discovery classes. One study showed that many students who made A's and B's in traditional physics courses slipped to C's and D's in the new courses. Richard Knabel, an earth-science teacher in Yorktown, N.Y., complains that parents are so worried about getting their children into college that "it runs me up the wall-and the kids often have a block against real learning because all they worry about is grades...
...value of the new courses is reflected in the contagious reaction of the teachers and students who find that the discovery approach suddenly makes science fun. "You can see a change in attitude among students," says Dale Hesser, a Mattydale, N.Y., earth-science teacher. "A light comes into their eyes, and it's much easier to motivate them. If I couldn't teach this way, I would get out of teaching." At Los Angeles' Fremont High School, Sophomore Billy Tucker, who has trouble with arithmetic and reading, figures he will be fortunate to pass his discovery-based...