Word: forman
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...education class that satisfied the law but virtually ignored Nat's problems. He and his parents were unaware of how little he was learning until a college counselor told his father: "Your son is hopeless." Furious at the summary judgment, Nat's father enrolled him in the Forman School in Litchfield, Conn., a private institution founded in 1930 that specializes in teaching dyslectics. This fall Gove begins his freshman year at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Says he: "I didn't know what my potentials were, and now I know. I've come far. It shows...
...training workshop held last week at the Forman School, nationally known experts and teachers gathered to discuss ways that dyslectics, especially teenagers, can reach their intellectual capacity. All agreed there is much that both public schools and parents can do that they are not now doing to teach dyslectic children. The main prescription: old-fashioned phonics, a system of learning to read by sounding out words by letter and syllable. Says Forman Headmaster Richard Peirce: "What Forman is trying to do is affect the national education scene by educating people to what dyslexia is-a difference in how people process...
...dyslexic in high school has special problems. After years of being told that he is slow or stupid, he can have a very poor self-image. Forman provides an array of sports training to improve physical self-confidence. But the biggest challenge for teachers is to devise a curriculum commensurate with the student's real intelligence. At Forman, students listen to a recording of, say, Romeo and Juliet while reading the play. Computers are becoming an important teaching tool because they promote sequential learning and logical development. For the student able to handle calculus but not the sequences...
Elected to the lota Chapter of Phi Betta Kappa were Janet B. Abrams, Joanne Cohn, Elizabeth Dobell, Noel M. Holbrook, Nancy E. Mills, Sophie I. Pirie, Amy G. Remensnyder, and Wendy A. Weiger. Elected to the Alpha Chapter were Jeremy J. Benstein, Paul A. Engelmayer, Michael J. Folz, Christopher Forman, Wesley R. Gardenswartz, James T. Hamilton, Marco Iansiti, Jeffrey W. Knopf, Frank S. Lee, Timothy W. McGuire, Bruce Tidor, and Christopher S. Wood All are juniors...
...there are dedicated conservatives at Harvard--about 25 who regularly attend the Conservative Club's meetings, says President Christopher S. Forman '83, and another 30 to 50 who participate occasionally. (Anderson and fellow leftist organizer Jamin B. Raskin '83 estimate that there is a corps of 50 regular activists attached to the Committee on Central America, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and other groups.) Forman and his colleagues say that other less-motivated Reagan fans are at least willing to "come out of the closet" these days. "I'm used to being called a 'fascist,'" says Conservative Club member...