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...lies a reawakened national concern for some faded educational verities, among them the close teacher-pupil contact that was much in evidence last week at Lennep. There, beneath pictures of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Carol Sevalstad, 33, glided through the mellow buzz of a dozen children in six grades. When Lee Cavender tripped over his second-grade arithmetic game on Lennep's computer, Sevalstad untangled him. Then she turned to a Lilliputian table where two first graders were hard at their reading. "I want to spend a lot of time on reading with the first graders," she explained. "This...
...active than they used to be. Guttmacher statistics show that the incidence of sexual intercourse among unmarried teenage women increased by two-thirds during the 1970s. Moreover, the sexual revolution seems to have moved from the college campus to the high school and now into the junior high and grade school.[*] A 1982 survey conducted by Johns Hopkins Researchers John Kantner and Melvin Zelnick found that nearly one out of five 15-year-old girls admitted that she had already had intercourse, as did nearly a third of 16-year-olds and 43% of 17-year-olds. "In the eyes...
...warned, "John's not a beauty to watch," but the coach understated it. How Shaffer could have started 54 straight victories became the question of the moment, but an answer was suggested following the game by the brave way he stood up to his first loss since seventh grade. Of three interceptions, one at the goal line, Shaffer said straightforwardly, "The pattern was good, the protection was good, the throw was short. They were all bad throws. They killed us. It's just too bad that the performance of one person can have so much to do with the outcome...
Felipe Garza had never been considered a standout among the teenagers in the central California farming town of Patterson, Calif. Small for a 15-year-old, he did poorly in his eighth-grade class and sometimes clowned to mask his feelings of depression. His family was poor and lived in a converted motel. Yet after Felipe died last week, nearly 500 of Patterson's 4,700 residents attended his funeral to accord him the respect he had not attained in life...
...part of a broad program to improve the state's public schools, was not terribly difficult. (Sample item: spotting the misspelled word "discused" in a paragraph.) But teachers reacted with outrage. "It's the wrong instrument to measure my ability," said Mary Lee Reyna, a first-grade teacher in San Antonio. "If I am incompetent, you'd think they would have found me out in 23 years. The only way you can tell if I'm a competent teacher is to come see me in my classroom." Harold Massey, executive director of the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals, maintained...