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...over the state, placing a bilingual burden on small school systems too. Of California's 3.9 million schoolchildren, nearly 10% so far have been defined as limited, or non-English-speaking. The bilingual program suffers from a lack of adequate teachers. Says State Board of Education President Michael Kirst: "We need 9,000 teachers. We only have 5,000, and the demand is growing faster than the supply...
Even so, tightfisted Governor Jerry Brown has proposed a $35 million expansion of the program. Moreover, the State Board of Education has requested a $454 million appropriation to introduce the same type of program into secondary schools beginning in 1977. As Stanford Education Professor Michael Kirst says, "The general climate of opinion about E.C.E. is positive." Indeed, according to John Pincus, a Rand Corp. analyst and professed skeptic on educational reform, the California effort has the potential of becoming "the broadest reform in public education since the introduction of the comprehensive high school 75 years...
...philosophy is shared by at least some California educators. Says Michael Kirst, a member of the state board of education: "Perhaps these multiple shocks from Brown will be helpful to public education. If an institution tries to do too much, it may end up doing nothing well...
...that 94% of 10,000 California children in special reading programs that cost over $250 per child gained more than a year in ability, while those in programs that cost less showed less improvement. However, that survey omitted the ten largest programs in the state. Stanford Education Professor Michael Kirst, who serves as a HEW adviser, calls it "a loosely done, uncontrolled study" with "very weak findings," and concludes: "The Administration is picking any straws it can gather." A. Harry Passow, a Columbia educationist, is only slightly more sanguine about compensatory education. "If you spend money properly, it can help...
...Germany of this new generation will be somewhat different and perhaps a bit difficult for its old allies. Yet it may well be a Germany that is far more attractive than any of the earlier generations were able to make. In one of Helmut Kirst's novels about World War II, a German soldier in Russia expresses the hope that maybe some day there may even be a Germany that is fun to live in. With luck, Brandt's Germany could be that place...