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...preserve the sanity of his teachers, and to carry his teaching system a big step forward, Moore presented the project to Thomas A. Edison Research Laboratory in West Orange, N.J. The firm finally developed a childproof teaching typewriter, complete with transistorized patience. This year the public schools of Freeport, Long Island, started testing the new machines by setting 22 kindergartners before computerized typewriters to learn to read, while another group of 22 children set about learning by conventional methods...
...Edison Responsive Environment machines were used in Freeport. It turned out that the typewriter-taught scholars were reading nearly two months sooner than their friends. A dividend: since the typewriter keys are coded in eight colors, and the children's fingernails are painted in corresponding colors in their initial sessions with the machine, the kids learn touch-typing while learning to read...
...push at the moment," predicts John Henry Martin, superintendent of schools in Freeport, L.I., "will eventually force the public school system into running nursery schools. And the only thing on the horizon with the theoretical base and the classroom hardware for a modern nursery is the Montessori system." Adds Nancy Rambusch: "We've come full circle. We're back with the slum kids Maria Montessori started with...
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People Shortage. Freeport's first hotel, the lush, 254-room neo-Aztec Lucayan Beach, opened last January (cheapest room: $37), and its casino-the first in the Bahamas-is kept busy by visitors from Miami. A topnotch 18-hole golf course and country club are completed. Just up the beach, there will be a 500-room Holiday Inn Hotel and a 150-room boatel and marina; other land has been bought for nightspots, motels, office buildings, a shopping center, private homes, a draught-and-rafters English pub. The biggest moneymaker so far is a $1,500,000 bunkering terminal...