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...first day in her combined fourth-and fifth-grade class, Amy practiced handwriting, read Paul Reveres Ride and studied the relationship of inches, yards and meters. One of her classmates, Maurice Brown, reported that "she's real smart. That's because she writes real neat." Mrs. Meeder's ver dict was that Amy was "very unaffected, very natural, very independent. She just fit in beautifully." In Plains, she attended a predominantly black school, and Stevens has a similar racial mix. Of the 217 students, 60% are black and 30% are foreign born-mostly the children of employees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Fast Start for the First Kid | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

...amazed at how wonderfully articulate our third, fourth-and fifth-grade children have become. Isn't it a tribute to the quality of the education they are receiving that they can already comprehend such descriptive characterizations as "truly malevolent, undependable, untrustworthy, yet powerful and dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1974 | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...nationwide attitude-measurement questionnaire given last fall to fourth-and fifth-graders by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare asked students a blunt question about their parents: "How do you think your parents feel about black and white students going to the same school together?" And about their schoolmates: "Do you think black students in this school cause more trouble than other kinds of students?" About their teachers: "Do you think white teachers in this school are unfair to students who are not white?" The questionnaire was designed to measure racial attitudes, primarily in urban schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Class Tensions | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

...Massachusetts and Pennsylvania primaries last week, it was a new race. In Pennsylvania, Hubert Humphrey won the first state primary of his career. George McGovern swept to a lopsided victory in Massachusetts and finished close behind George Wallace in Pennsylvania, where Edmund Muskie ended up an embarrassing fourth-and quite literally out of the money. As the candidates went into Ohio and Indiana this week, the committed delegate count stood: McGovern, 231½; Muskie, 124½; Wallace, 77; Humphrey, 76; Shirley Chisholm, 5; Wilbur Mills, I. A Who's Where of the principal candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Front and Center for George McGovern | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...defense held, and on fourth-and seven place kicker Harry Klebanoff missed a field goal from...

Author: By Robert Decherd, James Hines, and Evan W. Thomas, S | Title: Harvard Triumphs Over Bulldogs, 14-12, Will Share Second Place in Ivy League | 11/21/1970 | See Source »

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