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...Partly, says Ayer, because high schools now carry along a lot of low I.Q.s who used to drop out at grade-school level. But more important: elementary schools spend less time on spelling, often do not teach it as a separate subject at all. Says Ayer: "Children are taught to read by phrases and whole sentences, and they aren't taught that each word represents an idea. Perhaps it's good for reading, but it's bad for spelling...
...addition, N.E.A. pointed out, the number of 14-and 15-year-olds who are leaving school before graduating to go to work has dropped from 31% in 1900 to less than 5% in 1950. In the same period the school year has been lengthened from 99 to 152 days, and the proportion of grade-school students who go on to high school has almost tripled. N.E.A.'s only recommendation: build more schools...
...National Education Association scanned the horizon last week and announced that 1) not enough college and normal-school students are preparing for jobs as grade-school teachers; 2) the shortage in grade-school teachers will get worse before it gets better...
...commission's recommendations : boost the grade-school teacher's pay, give him job tenure, set up more attractive retirement plans, and establish the same salary scales for elementary-and high-school teachers. One likely result: some of the growing surplus of trained high-school teachers (50,000 this year) will be attracted to the lower grades...
Golden Platitude. Williams has been getting thrills out of baseball since grade-school days: "I was always the first to get there in the morning," he remembers, "so as to be on hand when the janitor opened the closet where they kept the athletic equipment. By the time the other kids showed, I'd have the bat in my hand, to be first up. We'd play until school started and then again at recess...