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...studies of U.S. high schools (TIME cover, Sept. 14. 1959). and in 1958 it got public campuses to set up honors programs for gifted students. In the past year, Carnegie underwrote everything from courses in Chinese at a private school in Massachusetts to helping Denver parents teach their kindergarten children to read, plus a significant $300,000 grant to Notre Dame for the first big study of U.S. parochial schools...
...construction of about 400 units, including one, two, or three-bedroom apartments and efficiency units. Sert stressed that all the apartments will have kitchens, large living rooms, and "a small amount of study space." The complex itself will contain some small stores, meeting rooms, a library, and a kindergarten area...
...Moon-Smeared Seas. The world he paints is as private as the life he leads. Ghostly boats sail his moon-smeared seas, and kindergarten monsters roam his curious landscapes (see color). These, says Pedersen, are "fairytale pictures," and like all fairy tales, they have a touch of sorcery. Pedersen has never broken faith with childhood; basically he is an unspoiled innocent whose paintings sometimes have the quality of folk art, and almost always have the atmosphere of the nursery. The most ordinary everyday experience catapults him into fantasy. "To make a painting," he explains, "is a process by which...
...children who could sing nursery rhymes. Lance didn't even say anything." Little did Mamma know. Just after he turned two, Lance began identifying cars by make. His mother thought he did it by recognizing shapes; it turned out that Lance was reading the name plates. In kindergarten, he unnerved the teacher by reading aloud to other tots during rest period. He mastered the multiplication table in three days, zipped through all six elementary grades in one year...
...17th straight year, the colossal U.S. educational system is under way with more students than ever-49.3 million (out of a population of 184 million) in all public and private schools, from kindergarten through graduate school. Since last year, estimates the U.S. Office of Education, enrollment has risen by 1,400,000, or 3% The breakdown...