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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tinker. Come up with a totally new look at early education and give us a whole new way of running schools and teaching in the primary grades." So ordered California Superintendent of Public Instruction Wilson Riles when he assumed his post in 1971. The State Department of Education, along with a task force of educators and parents, delved into the innovations and experiments of the past decade, accepting some, rejecting others, and finally developed a reform plan that Riles adopted. Dubbed the Early Childhood Education (E.C.E.) program, the project, now in its third year of operation, is used to teach...
REMEMBER, back in grammar school or something, you went into New York on a Sixth Grade Field trip and you threw stuff around on the bus; you had to get dressed up because you were going into The City, and you had to be on your best behavior, so the bus stopped down there someplace and you got out and looked around and all the people around you were real mean-looking and not-particularly-dressed-up either and coming out of XXX Bookstores and lying in the gutter, so you went into the theater and saw this show with...
...case your memory doesn't extend back to sixth grade, Charlie Brown consists of a series of vignettes, tied together neatly by the notion of the cast's descent into the abyss of comical self-doubt and (yuk, yuk) mutual recrimination. The six cast members handle the material superbly; Leslie Koenig's direction has resulted in a tight and fast moving ninety minutes. Greg Smith's Charlie Brown is a sincere, handsome if "wishy-washy" little guy with a faint trace of southern accent. Jim Meier's Snoopy is a dog that thinks he's a dancing ham; his "Suppertime...
Whatever the nature of Charlie Brown's appeal, it is probably directed at a non-sixth grade audience. The little girl sitting next to me, who confessed at intermission that she uses a Snoopy toothbrush every night, didn't laugh once the whole time; her parents, sitting behind her, couldn't have guffawed any louder. So maybe you should see Charlie Brown, especially if you didn't get it the first time around, but how about doing the kids a favor and sending them to see The Beggar's Opera instead...
Under the proposal, students who fail more than two half courses could not graduate with departmental honors unless they compensated for each extra failure with an honors grade in still another course outside the area of the field of concentration...