Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...activities," they will not be "lost in a hodgepodge of unit teaching." Reading begins with phonics in first grade and formal grammar starts in fourth grade (two years earlier than in most U.S. schools). Writing is heavily emphasized because it "improves and refines thinking"-and the same goes for math and science. More outrageous yet by progressive standards, geography focuses on specific places, and U.S. history is taught in chronological order "to develop an historian's capacity to see and evaluate primary sources...
...Mecca. In 1956 came Morocco's independence. Determined to propel his nation into the 20th century, King Mohammed slashed Karaouine's religious studies, introduced math, physics, chemistry and foreign languages. In 1957 he jolted traditionalists by setting up a female branch at Karaouine, where the enrollment (6,325) now includes 1,197 women. Soon will come another big revolution: 3,000 cramped boarders will move to airy dormitories on the new campus outside Fez, which will boast 70 modern classrooms and laboratories and such un heard of niceties as a laundry, athletic field, infirmary and dining halls...
...Arithmetic should be the main math diet for grades 7-8. Only the very able (3% to 5% nationally) should begin algebra in the eighth grade in order to tackle college math in the twelfth grade. ¶ Science should be a fulltime subject beginning in the-seventh grade. Biology (now usually taught in tenth grade) might well begin in ninth grade-but only if lab facilities can be provided. ¶ Foreign language should begin in seventh grade for "some, if not all, pupils." But the school must follow through with continuing instruction in the same language through twelfth grade...
...Diego State (8,191), strong in science and math, is geared to the area's aviation-electronics complex (Ryan Aeronautical, General Dynamics). S. D. boasts 26 major labs, hopes to get a nuclear reactor. Last year it had half the physics majors in the state-college system. The average freshman IQ: 120-125. The faculty Ph.D. rate: 63%. By 1970 S.D. expects 25,000 students. Says President Malcolm Love, onetime boss of the University of Nevada: "Though we are called a college, we are in deed and in fact a university...
Courageous Leap. Psychologist Inhelder thinks that the first two years of school might be devoted to just such exercises, a "pre-curriculum" that would make formal science and math easier later on. Psychologist Bruner suggests that literature may be taught the same way. Given the first part of a story, a child could be trained to complete it as a tragedy or a farce long before he understood those words. A young child should be introduced early to great human themes. "A curriculum ought to be built around the great issues, principles and values that a society deems worthy...