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That night Joke began to vomit. Her parents wrapped the vomit in newspaper and tossed it into the stove. Next morning Joke seemed all right and went off to kindergarten; her father threw the ashes from the stove on a backyard dump. A doctor, checking radium needles at the hospital, noticed that the tip of the one used on Joke (it had already been condemned because of oxidation at the junction of head and shaft) was missing. When it could not be found in the treatment room, out went the alarm...
Spanish at Four. The whole idea of the school is not to give the children a completely different education from the kind they would receive elsewhere, but to keep them constantly challenged. "A kindergarten child with an IQ of 135," says Alma, "is about 6½ years old. You can't keep a child like that interested in finger painting all year." Each pupil proceeds at his own pace, whether doing work normal for his age or work one or two years in advance. But the McCormicks have added some special features. All children take, judo and ballet lessons...
...their busy classrooms, filled with youngsters poring over books and maps or making models of the solar system, even the McCormicks have been surprised by the eagerness they see. One little boy of five, who had attended a regular kindergarten, entered Adastra suffering from nightmares, constant stomach upsets and a nasty rash. Now, no longer bored, he reads, is rapidly learning Spanish, and his symptoms are gone. A girl of four kept vanishing from Adastra's kindergarten to join the first grade, would be brought back screaming: "They have books in kindergarten but just with pictures. They...
...long haul," said Astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek, director of the nation's satellite-optical-tracking program, "this country must change its way of thinking about education-clear back to the kindergarten." The big change would probably have to begin in the home. "Parents," said a group of Albuquerque science teachers, "generally fail to counsel their children on school courses, and they have a get-by philosophy of their own. The elder generation wants to work short hours, get high pay, ride in big cars and watch television." The effect on the schools, said Grayson Kirk, has been devastating. "Many...
...Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute, has suggested scientific fairy tales to accompany "Mother Goose" stories. Bed-time lessons "on the origin of the numeral zero" should be inculcated in children in order to give them "a basic interest in science from an early age," preferably before they enter kindergarten...