Word: experimentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Your article on teen-age drug use [Aug. 30] raises a question. If American youth so strongly urges "telling it like it is," why do more than 10% of the nation's high school students experiment with drugs like marijuana? Aren't they concerned with seeing, hearing...
The experiment has succeeded beyond the conservationists' highest hopes. Last year, when the first batch had matured, fishermen caught 33,000 cohos; this year the catch will approach 100,000. For the little puddle-bass fisherman, the advent of Pacific Coast salmon has brought a whole new world. Detroit...
The logistical arguments against the courses are as yet unproven, and the theoretical ones seem adequately answered by Chalmers. It is difficult to believe that a Faculty which this fall approved two "radical critiques" courses virtually controlled by students, will jealously withhold the privilege of giving Gen Ed courses from...
Critics of the public schools, particularly in urban ghettos, have long argued that many children fail to learn simply because their teachers do not expect them to. That proposition is effectively documented in a new book called Pygmalion in the Classroom (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $4.95). The book tells of an...
Technically, the community committee had a weak case. Rhody McCoy, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville administrator, finally filed charges against ten of the teachers. He cited the "excessive lateness" of one, the failure of four others to maintain class discipline, unspecified opposition to the decentralization experiment by others. A retired Negro...