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Albert F. Hofeld, Jr. '58, of Dunster House and Evanston, Ill., will serve as treasurer, and Paul L. Scher '57, of Dunster House and Glencoe, Ill., will be secretary...
...introduced. They argued about the merits of oral and silent reading; they also began to champion the idea of teaching a pupil to recognize words as wholes. Gradually, word-recognition became the vogue. "There's no doubt about it," says Elementary School Superintendent Oscar M. Chute of Evanston, 111. "Back in the '30s, some educators decided that phonics were no longer useful, so they got rid of phonics...
...subject, should be "a teacher of reading." Furthermore, reading instruction should never stop. In St. Louis, it continues from grade school (600 minutes a week) through high school (225 minutes). For slow elementary pupils there are "rooms of 20," where pupils get individual instruction from reading experts. In Evanston, 111., sixth-graders make up "reading wheels," with the spokes representing various books read. Eighth-graders must report on a book a week. But in all reading, the experts insist, each Johnny should proceed at his own level. For the 15-year-old who can only manage fourth-grade books, such...
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Died. Walter Dill Scott, 86, longtime (1920-39) president of Northwestern University during the period of its greatest growth (9,100 to 23,500 students), during which the university built its downtown campus, received nearly $50 million in endowments; in Evanston...