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...began trying out his ideas in his own summer school. Failures dropped by half. In 1944 he put the whole school on the "Kiski Plan...
...Kiski's 200 students no longer go from French to history to geometry and back again each day. For nine weeks, one group of students takes nothing but English. Then, after a four-day holiday, the group may begin nine weeks of mathematics, then a language, then history or science. Students and teachers both seem to like the new schedule. Dismissals for scholastic failure have dropped from 15 a year to zero and there is no sign at all that students are bored by their nine-week stretches. "You'd be surprised," says Clark. "For most of them...
French in Paris. Today, athletics are still important at Kiski (one recent graduate: Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias), but not all-important. Kiski wants to see its students on the playing field in the afternoon but it insists they spend their evenings in "cultural studies," e.g., practicing the piano, rehearsing with the orchestra, reading...
...plan one step farther. Last week he had 14 of his boys in Paris, starting off each morning with a breakfast of croissants and cafe au lait, studying four hours in a Sorbonne classroom, then fanning out over the city to see the sights. Everything was according to the Kiski plan: concentrating on a single subject, the boys had begun to handle French with assurance...
Next fall, during their regular nine-week language period, Headmaster Clark plans to send other students to Mexico to study Spanish. Next spring, it will be Luxembourg for German. When U.S. colleges get the present crop of Kiski boys, Clark hopes, they will find them as interested in studies as in football. And they may find that some of them are good football...