Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this activity has had the active encouragement of Sizer, but it remains a grass-roots effort without central coordination. The result has been a communication problem; with everybody doing his own thing, courses duplicate one another and often fail to fill the crucial gaps in the curriculum. The MAT summer study found the school very strong in the social sciences, but very weak in such areas as the study of teaching methods. Almost all the new courses fall into the category of social science...
...loss as it may seem; because those who make it out of the twelfth grade have only the equivalent of a sixth grade Alabama education. A little less than two-thirds of black high school graduates are able to read. Many are turned down by the military because they fail the elementary math and reading tests...
...documentary repeated details of the supposedly dangerous plots that hippies, yippies and "terrorists" were hatching to take over Chicago. The odd thing is that the Chicago police took so many of the demonstrators' boasts seriously. Even now, they fail to understand that if an army of 10,000 genuinely violent "revolutionaries" had descended on the city, many policemen and bystanders would have been killed...
...involved. But he understands as well as any of Russia's great writer-dissenters of the past what he is about. He could be speaking of himself: "One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, raise the official hierarchy above the throne of the Almighty, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable spiritual superiority of certain human beings...
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 ingenious experiment involving several teachers at a South San Francisco grade school who were deceived into believing that certain of their students had been spotted as "late bloomers." Eight months later, the chil dren's academic abilities showed dramatic improvement...