Word: manual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheet that looks more like a page from a company audit than a report card. To assist them in deciphering the report, which is used for kindergarten through third grade, pupils' parents are supplied with a 32-page booklet called Your Child Starts School and a 28-page manual with the remarkable title Terminal Behavioral Objectives for Continuous Progression Modules in Early Childhood Education. Says School Board Member James Jennings, who labeled the whole package a "monster": "Seventy percent of the parents will never raise the lid on a cover with a title like that...
...under seven basic "curriculum areas" (e.g., mathematics, social sciences, art). The wording may well represent a new low in educators' jargon. Skill No. 5 in the basic concepts module in the communications curriculum area, for example, is "oral response on a concrete level using objects." That means, the manual explains helpfully, that a child can "identify a toy car by saying a word, phrase or sentence about...
...been substituted for "terminal objectives." Superintendent Estes also hired a freelance writer last November to write yet another supplementary pamphlet, which in effect will explain the explanation. At last report the writer was only halfway through the job. Reason for the delay: he is having difficulty understanding the manual...
Patterned after the popular Whole Earth Catalog, the new survival manual tells readers where to get information about feminist credit unions, how to start feminist study groups, where to get radio air time for movement programs, and how to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. For women moving to the country, there are the names of magazines covering animal hoof trimming and goat breeding. There is also the perfect gift for the unenlightened boss or boy friend: a male-chauvinist-pig pincushion-with initials...
...encouragement. Bolstered by the response, Hakozaki is carrying the fight to new fronts as well. He has persuaded several Tokyo department stores to stock specially designed scissors, golf clubs and tools for lefthanders. Now at work on a second book on the subject, Hakozaki is also designing a special manual for the art of brush writing, which poses particular problems for lefthanded schoolchildren. Though Hakozaki sees a "long uphill battle" ahead for his movement, there are indications that the prejudice against lefthanders is beginning to ease. One sign of progress is a record that has become one of Japan...