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...three: Medford High in a Bos ton suburb, Marshfield High in Coos Bay, Ore., and West High in Iowa City, Iowa...
...believe parents should help set educational policy. Says Koerner: "A school-board member too is very often bamboozled by the alleged expertise of those who run the schools." Increasingly, parents are showing a healthy impatience with the professionals. Coos Bay Lumberworker Don Dean, who has a daughter at Marshfield High, complains that too many kids see school as a democratic institution. It's not. It s an institution of learning." School-tax rebellions attest to parental dissatisfaction. Other indicators are experiments in Illinois and California with performance "contracts" between schools and parents. Example: in Oakland, teachers and parents last month...
...houses, an attractive downtown shopping area and several motels?most of them strung along U.S. 101, the main street. Its nigh school, a Depression-era legacy of the Public Works Administration, sits prominently on a high hill. When the morning fog clears?at 8 a.m., whiteness blankets the town?Marshfield High commands a sweeping view of Coos...
...keeping with the trend of the '60s, Marshfield began offering its 1,866 students a wide variety of courses in an effort to broaden the traditional curriculum. The number of courses has grown to 215. Elective options in English include science fiction, film studies and business communications (considered easy) or British literature (harder). An array of general math and essential math courses has sprouted in the mathematics department, traditionally regarded as the best in the school. Although four years of English are mandatory standard survey courses stop after the tenth grade. No foreign language is required. Students must take...
John Johnson a strict, highly respected math teacher, has been at Marshfield for 18 years. He accepts the obvious: students are not taking the traditional math courses because "the homework has dropped off in other courses and it's easier for kids to get good grades elsewhere." A stocky, gray-haired man who is also head basketball coach, Johnson worries that the simplified math offerings are "an easy