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...Kindergarten Juku. A generation ago, there were only a few juku; today some 600,000 large and small ones are in operation, or nearly 17 for each of Japan's 35,400 primary and secondary schools. Fully 6 million of Japan's 10 million primary school students attend juku in the hope of bettering their chances of getting into the top junior and senior high schools, some of which accept only one in 20 applicants. Millions more go to other juku to prepare for college. The recent coming of affluence has also brought juku that prep children...
...Twenty-five states, the District of Columbia and several territories have developed uniform guidelines for classroom instruction in the use of the metric system. Beginning in the fall of 1976, Illinois schoolchildren from kindergarten through Grade 6 will be taught both the standard English and the metric systems. In Grade 7 and above, the metric system will be used exclusively...
...automobile ruthlessly honked the bike from the road. In the field of romance, it displaced its predecessor; enclosed in steel and glass, the young couple enjoyed a privacy that was denied them even in the parlor. The bicycle abruptly became an exiled device, to be used somewhere between kindergarten and acne...
Bird suggests relaxing the lockstep that forces millions of young people to march automatically to school year after year, from kindergarten to graduate school. She notes that top educators have already called for alternatives to the traditional college education. Yale President Kingman Brewster, for example, has warned against the "assumption that formal education is best received in continuous doses," while proposing that students leave the campus after their sophomore year to live abroad. Chicago Sociologist James Coleman's White House report on youth suggests giving vouchers worth four years of college tuition to young people; the vouchers could...
...production by the famous children's Hour Theater will undoubtedly inspire youngsters and big people alike (and also small old people). For one dollar you can see Pinocchio, Gepetto, and a very long nose. (It actually grows on stage, we're told.) It's sponsored by the Kirkland Nursery-Kindergarten, where some of the most intelligent, likeable, and well-directed kids we know go to school. Saturday, January 18, 10 a.m. --Rick and Dottie Briney...