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Before she started acting years ago, the broomless Miss Hamilton was a kindergarten teacher in Cleveland. Inspired by seeing Gertrude Lawrence, she gave up teaching and joined the Cleveland Playhouse rep company, where she was soon stirring away as the First Witch in Macbeth. That typed her, but dramatic witchcraft could not change her basic character. She not only went on to become the hag of the half-century, she also became a member of the Beverly Hills Board of Education, and a Cub Scout den mother. Now we will be able to shut off those lights...
...Downs. Like the adults they really are, the children of Peanuts are beset by an assortment of griefs and fears. Charlie Brown's little sister Sally is afraid of kindergarten. Linus, refusing to memorize his piece for the Christmas pageant, knuckles under when faced with the imminent threat of his sister's cocked fist. The ungovernable loudmouth Lucy gets depressed by the thought that the world has downs as well as ups. "I don't want any downs,' " she bellows. "I just want 'ups' and 'ups' and 'ups.' " Even Snoopy...
Detroit public schools next term will try a new kind of ungradedness. Kindergarten and first grade will be combined, and a bit later the second grade will be added to the mix. Most children will remain in the big non-grade for three years before entering conventional third grade, but the new flexibility will allow some pupils to finish in two years while requiring others to take four...
They do not know what a mirror is, or what an orange is. They do not know their own names. In slum schools across the U.S., normally intelligent children come to kindergarten and first grades innocent of the elementary knowledge and aspirations of their middle-class contemporaries. This mental poverty, caused by their parents' often shocking ignorance and inarticulation, starts the kids off in school so ill-equipped that they slip helplessly backward as they go on (central Harlem eighth-graders, for example, test almost three years behind other New York City students). Thus begins the vicious circle...
Sustained Aspirations. The Baltimore experiment began in February 1963 with two classes of 30 pupils each, expanded to its present level of four classes (one white, two Negro, one integrated) six months later. Each class is taught by a team of four women: an experienced kindergarten teacher, an assistant, a teacher's aide whose job is to keep individual records on each child's progress, and an unpaid volunteer who helps at lunchtime and naptime and adds to the casual, familylike surroundings. "We break the class into groups, always trying to bring the communication down to a conversation...