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When the Soviet Union adopted its new Constitution four years ago, it provided free schooling for every qualified youngster from kindergarten through university. In Russia's 550 colleges, students got not only free tuition but a salary of 100 to 200 rubles ($20 to $40) a month. Last week a Government decree changed the Constitution: high-school and college students were required to pay tuition. Rates: from 150 to 400 rubles a year...
...progressive school, the School for Crippled Children organized small classes from kindergarten through high school, planned to teach its pupils how to make a living. Because many a sensitive crippled child hates school hustle & bustle, Denver's teachers were not surprised that most of their school's 250 seats were still empty the first week. But they expected that pupils would find the school such fun that it would soon be filled. Expensive to run, the School for Crippled Children is free to Denver children, will admit out-of-town pupils for $300 a year...
...India, whither she had gone to form "a centre of scientific researches in what is commonly known as education," Signorina Maria Montessori, 69, pioneer woman educator and founder of the famed Montessori (progressive kindergarten) method, was interned as an enemy alien. Mohandas K. Gandhi asked for her release, guaranteed "her good conduct...
...tots have a rhythm band, paint, wade, swim, take turns eating at a French table (where only French is spoken). Brightest spot in Sherwood School's day is the "conversation hour." Excerpts from a sample kindergarten conversation: "Let's not talk about Hitler today.""No, let's not talk about that awful man." "He's worse than Gulliver."-"Gulliver and Hitler shoot everybody."Last week both boys and girls were busy with war games. For playing too enthusiastically, one little boy was sentenced by his classmates to write 500 times: "It is wrong to hit little...
Young Dr. Fabing found it impossible to talk to Eugene "because of the numerous small attacks which followed quickly one upon the other." The boy sat vacantly in his office winding spools of twine, fumbling with balls of tinfoil like a kindergarten child. His mental age, Dr. Fabing found, was just where it was when he left school: six years. Dr. Fabing tried giving Eugene daily doses of seven-and-a-half-grain tablets of dilantin sodium, a new treatment for epilepsy developed two years ago by Drs. Hiram Houston Merritt of Harvard and Tracy Putnam, head of Manhattan...