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...started speaking complete sentences; by his second birthday he could count to 100. At three he interrupted a story his mother was reading to him. "Why don't you ever let me read to you?" asked Mike, and was allowed to do just that. When Mike's kindergarten teacher asked the class to draw a picture on any subject, he mapped the solar system and labeled all the planets correctly...
...manner of the budget's presentation (to the public rather than to Parliament first), but few dared to challenge the facts and figures of what Giscard calls "a sincere balanced budget, without any tricks or guile." In the land of Descartes, where the class prize begins in kindergarten and the race is to the swiftest synopsis, the elegant, aristocratic Giscard has been winning prizes all his life as the fastest brain in town. Born to wealth and name, Giscard zipped through France's best schools, became a member of the elite inspecteurs des finances, was only 35 when...
Crucial Transformation. The council's most famous innovation is a comprehensive new math curriculum for kindergarten through sixth grade that is being taught this fall to 5,000,000 students in 50 states. Its newest change is perhaps its most crucial: transforming social studies from a dull memorization of unrelated facts, which has long been the scandal of grade-school education, to a lively, integrated understanding of the economic, political and historical crosscurrents that comprise U.S. democracy...
Learning related facts, pupils are introduced to maps in kindergarten instead of waiting until the fourth grade to grasp what the whole earth looks like. They are told that Norseman Leif Ericson discovered the New World, not Columbus. For years, social-studies courses pounded away on the virtue of thrift, but the council program realistically recognizes that students know their own families rely heavily on credit, and teaches that both saving and spending have a place in the usual household economy...
...time is ripe not for tinkering, but for real reform," says the council's executive director, George H. Baird, 41. His goal is overhauling the curriculum from kindergarten through high school. When that task is done, the council expects to be able to send its high-school graduates to college knowing as much as the average present-day college sophomore or junior...