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...Grade-school children, says Psychologist Escalona, want facts: How big are the bombs? How deep should the shelters be? What is the speed of the missiles? Parents who take the trouble can find the answers to such questions.* But they may still be stumped by "What will we find when we come out of the shelter?" The only thing to do, says the psychologist, is to discuss these unanswerables calmly and reasonably...
...girls, a prime motive is recent publicity about the rising status of the U.S. teacher. And increasingly, even a beginning teacher needs an M.A.; New York State announced last week that after 1966 it will require five years of higher education for even grade-school teachers...
McCaskill noted that lobbies represented higher private education apparently underscored the importance of improving the quality of education offered at the grade-school and high-school level...
...grade-school teacher in the Westphalian city of Bielefeld, Henze played the piano at five, took ballet lessons at six. Drafted into the Wehrmacht at 18, he continued his musical education at Heidelberg and Paris, soon decided that "old-style music sounds pale and insufficient." He spent the next 15 years rattling off dozens of chamber works, symphonies, ballets and operas that earned him a name as a one-man revival of German music...
What incited the teachers was the government's earmarking of $40 million-$60 million to pay 30,000 teachers in Catholic parochial schools-while it offered public school teachers only a $32 million raise. By such tactics as refusing to mark report cards, the fiercely anticlerical teachers have focused attention on decrepit buildings, overcrowded classrooms and minuscule salaries (even in costly Paris, a $200 monthly top for grade-school teachers...