Word: educanto
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...this is far from enough. One out of three New York pupils is, as the latest educanto puts it, "culturally different"-a stranger to middle-class values. One out of three junior high students is at least two years retarded in reading-constituting the city's No. 1 academic deficiency. All too often those same youngsters are shunted into outmoded vocational schools or diluted "general" academic courses that lead nowhere. Roughly half of all New York high school students drop out before graduation...
...Educanto v. English
...Scholars in the academic disciplines have long suspected that pretentious edu cationist jargon [Aug. 9] betrays a scar city of actual content. This "educanto" seems to be a brave facade hiding a bleakness of thought, a paucity of ideas and an intellectual immaturity...
...brave thrust at sociological jar gon, Professor Alan Simpson, who next year will become president of Vassar College, once transfixed students at Washington University in St. Louis by putting the 23rd Psalm into educanto...
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