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Getting Smarter Sooner A moppet in kindergarten recites his ABCs, then confesses to his parents: "I learned it on Sesame Street, but my teacher thinks she taught me." It is not only young children who are ahead of themselves-or rather, ahead of the level where the traditional curriculum considers they should be. High school seniors also often find themselves bored to death, and even more bored when they discover that their freshman year in college repeats much of what they have already learned...
...meet this problem, Wilson Riles, the man who ousted Archconservative Max Rafferty as California's superintendent of public instruction in last fall's elections, has a plan. He would start all of California's 4,408,000 public school children a year before the present kindergarten age of five. They would begin much of first-grade work in kindergarten instead of spending so much time on blocks and Junglegym...
...Shock the Mind. Discussing his program in a recent Los Angeles Times column, Riles argued that the state laws barring children from kindergarten until they are nearly five years old derive from the solicitous but outmoded notion of "readiness." That idea held that it is unwise to "shock the young mind with intensive instruction until it is ready -perhaps at age six or seven." The twelve-year curriculum became widespread by the 1890s, Riles adds, as "a gift of America to mass education. At a time when relatively few went to college, extra years of school free of charge were...
...mostly zonked by bad acid trips, and later strung out by huge, mind-bending doses of speed (amphetamine). Finally, many were destroyed by heroin. Their condition reflected a decline described by Jackie, a victim who saw it all in her late teens: "Sometimes I wish I was back in kindergarten," she told Smith. "It used to be like that here when I first came-people giving away flowers, sharing their food. Now it's turned into a big ego trip, nobody smiling or sharing...
...Department of International Cooperation, 250 government technicians will be working in 30 African nations during 1971 to guide 70 different aid projects. About 500 Africans, 15% of them women, will go to Israel at the same time for specialized instruction in everything from microbiology and urban planning to kindergarten teaching and union leadership. In the past decade, 6,200 Africans have received such training. "We Israelis are experienced nation builders," says Shaul Ben-Haim, Ambassador to Malawi. "That experience is about all we have to give, but it is gladly given and accepted with appreciation...