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Already 2½ years ahead of public school children, fifth-graders take off in a college-like departmental system under specialized teachers. Classes in each subject (math, science, English, social studies) meet five times a week. Homework averages two to three hours a night. Roeper wants his kids to think of life "as a place where work is taken for granted...
Archie not only is about the best passer over to throw a football, he is also an ideal young man. He rises early each morning to deliver papers, chats with students and helps them with homework, modestly removes signs saying "We Love You, Archie," drinks milk, studies hard, is friendly, brave, courteous, helpful, obedient, cheerful, reverent, and lots more...
...Presidential Adviser Don K. Price, who "can usually be found in Washington," with the result that "his appearances usually seemed unprepared, were often unintelligible and practically never interesting." Or: "Philosophy 140 explores deductive logic to the immense boredom of everyone, including Professor Willard Quine. The lectures are insulting, the homework assignments mechanical, the sections poor, and the reading-period selections juvenile...
...test is rooted back in 1958, when Little Lake called in some U.C.L.A. experts to measure how its schools were faring. Spurred by the unflattering report, Little Lake hired a vigorous new superintendent with a taste for higher standards. Superintendent William G. Stanley launched homework for all grades, reading by phonics, a stiffer grading system, mandatory foreign-language study, special classes for the gifted and the retarded. Up went beginning teachers' salaries, topping any in the Los Angeles area. And up went student test scores, says Superintendent Stanley, "from well below national norms to equal or better those norms...
Positive & Strong. In his drive to make the little betters a little better each year, Donner drives himself and everyone around him hard. He expects full dedication from even the outside members on G.M.'s board. Says one director: "Fred always does his homework and so do we. He won't tolerate anybody who doesn't." Sometimes a director's "homework" for the monthly board meeting amounts to as much as 7 lbs. of reports...