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Educational Theorist John Holt, author of Why Children Fail, used to tour the lecture circuit trying to persuade elementary and secondary schools to ease rigid rules and cut red tape. No longer. Despairing of reform within the nation's educational establishment, Holt has now decided to proselytize among parents, urging them to keep their children out of school and teach them at home...
...Though Holt's message flies in the face of a century-old tradition, home schooling was much more common during earlier centuries; its notable graduates include the likes of Alexander the Great and John Stuart Mill. Says Holt: "What impedes learning today is teaching, too much of it. The teacher takes all the fuel that makes the learning engine run and turns the students into passive laboratory rats...
...Holt, 55, is winning a growing if still small number of converts. A year ago, he launched a bimonthly newsletter. Growing Without Schooling, that now has 1,000 subscribers (at $10 a year). Within a decade, he estimates, almost 500,000 U.S. families will be schooling their children at home. That figure, he concedes, comes "out of a blue sky," yet it might not be all that fanciful. More and more parents are becoming disenchanted with rigid programs, school strikes and the reluctance of teachers to accept responsibility for students' failures to learn...
Still, there were some bright spots. Women increased their total of seats in state legislatures from 703 to 761 and doubled their numbers in lieutenant governorships to six. In Maryland, women won half of the state's eight seats in Congress: Republican Marjorie Holt and Democrats Gladys Spellman and Barbara Mikulski were reelected, while Democrat Beverly Byron won the seat vacated by the death of her husband. Other notable women candidates last week included...
...record, Yale won, 35-28, Larry Brown broke Mike Holt's single-season passing record and John Spagnola broke Gary Fencik's career receptions mark. What will be passed down over the years about this game, however, will be the memory of a remarkable string of dazzling pass catches and some of the best running and hard-nosed hitting that's been seen here this year...