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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Glass Jars and Shifting: A solo performance with voice, glass jars and movement by a talented young dancer who emerges from Cunningham's non-literal dance experiments of the fifties. David Appel claims he's been a musician since the fourth grade, but says his real interest is the fine line between unconscious changes in movement and those made consciously. If nothing else, his two pieces should be a victory for sheer concentration as Appel winds his dances tighter and tighter and each movement appears as a completion of the one that came before. April...
...being pilloried for being honest. If you say you grade conventionally, you can do whatever you damn well please," Gould said...
Across the state in the 7th District (Philadelphia's western end), Mary Hurtig is angry. A former first-grade teacher in New York City, Hurtig, 34, divides her time among her family (she and her husband, a physician, have two small children), modern dance and reform politics. The oppressive political machine run by Mayor Frank L. Rizzo switched its support to Jackson after Governor Milton J. Shapp dropped out. Now such Udall backers as Hurtig and her running mate, Pamela Reid, 30, a college psychology teacher, are not even permitted to speak at ward meetings...
Hiring Mothers. Schools that elect to participate in E.C.E. receive an extra $170 per student to create their own programs geared to each child's "learning profile." If a third-grader is reading on a first-grade level-all too common a circumstance today-the teacher is expected to help that child on his own level. Students ahead of their peers are provided more advanced lessons. To achieve such individual instruction, more instructors were needed. Since it was too expensive to hire enough trained teachers to do the job, Riles set out to use parents in the classroom...
...attests to the program's apparent success: "We have more help and can learn faster." Riles says that E.C.E. "has unleashed a creativity and sense of involvement that we could not have anticipated." Not all Californians are impressed with E.C.E. Some parents are disturbed that children on different grade levels are grouped together. Says Marilyn Herman, mother of three: "There is so much going on in these classrooms that even with more individual help some kids are being shortchanged on basics...