Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Special Training Units where, in addition to military training, they are given eight to 16 weeks of instruction in reading, writing and arithmetic with the aid of films, picture books, simple readers - enough to provide them with what the Army calls "functional literacy," a standard equivalent to a 4th-Grade education. The average soldier takes eight weeks to absorb this training, and is then sent to a regular training center. Of the 10% that fail the course, a negligible few may have special capacities, such as ability to handle a bulldozer, and are allowed to remain in the Army...
Learn at Home. Calvert home courses concede nothing to slowpokes. In two to four hours a day, 160 lessons a year, parents can put children through eight elementary grades in six years. Parents get their teacher-training from Calvert manuals, which are almost parent-proof. Though some find pedagogy tough going, most of their pupils do very well. Mothers with kindergarten children get instructions on how to teach, play games, punish, tell stories, test intelligence, deal with lefthandedness, lying, disobedience, sex problems, how to develop morals, neatness, courtesy, concentration, imagination. Sample instruction: "Obedience ... is the first requisite for ... proper instruction...
...took our Calvert books ... a Catholic nun taught the children. . . . Jim is now in 8th grade-doing beautifully. . . . Carl is in 7th and his teacher comments often on his excellent foundation. Anne is in 4th. . . . All books had to be censored . . . [one] told of little Japanese children pointing at Americans and saying 'Look at their big noses. . . .' The Japanese were incensed, [said] Japan was not such a backward nation. . . . [When we sailed] we left everything there for the children in camp...
...Washington the U.S. Navy Chaplains Office announced that it will shortly select two Negro clergymen (from applications coming in daily) to be the Navy's first Negro chaplains. Like other Navy chaplains, their age will determine their commissions: if under 38 they will be lieutenants, junior grade; if over 38, full lieutenants. In World War I the U.S. Army had 57 Negro chaplains: today, there are over 300 in service...
Into the yard came two sixth-grade girls, 11 and 13 years old, wearing black Halloween masks. One of them grabbed Margaret's arm, the other plunged into her chest a two-edge, two-inch blade. Margaret fell silently and the attackers fled. The teachers hustled the children indoors. A few minutes later, Margaret Patton died...