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Funston pointed out that a decade ago, only 4% of the nation's 10 million high-school students were ever expected to take economics, and that only one state, Oregon, required economics for a high-school diploma. Since then, "the number of students taking economics shows no discernible upward trend," although in the same decade the number of Americans who own stock has nearly doubled from 6,500,000 to 12,500,000-owing, in no small part, to Funston's own efforts to bring new investors into the stock market...
...Funston believes this economic know-nothingness is not an insoluble problem. Nor is economics "too tough" for high-school minds, providing it is made "real and exciting." What is needed, says Funston, is more required courses and more and better teachers. As an example of what can be done, Funston cited the twelfth-grade teacher in New York's Nyack High School who collected 50? from each pupil to form an investment pool. Together the class conducted an enthusiastic search for the right company in which to invest their $18, finally bought one share of American Zinc (price last...
...gave full play to the beginning of her exhaustive, five-part study of U.S. colleges and universities. On the Minneapolis Star, the education beat is covered in depth: one man for higher education, another at the secondary and elementary level, still another staffer who keeps busy supervising the 35 high-school students who work as paid education stringers...
...East, produced effective stories on the public-education systems in the Soviet Union, Korea and Japan. Helen Fleming, of the Chicago Daily News, writes with such telling effect on the local education scene that, after a series observing that the Chicago school system made only seven of 16 basic high-school courses compulsory, and questioning the latitude this left the student, the school board added four more courses to the compulsory list. In Los Angeles, as a public service, the Examiner each week distributes 114,000 copies of a current-events tabloid to 115 high schools. And Portland...
Gary Gubner of The Bronx is 17 years old and big for his age-6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs., 50 in. chest. He is also almost too strong for his own good. Last week, at a local indoor high-school meet, they gave him the 12-lb. shot and hustled out of range. Four times in a row the massive senior from De Witt Clinton High School ricocheted his put off the ceiling...