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...seems that accepting the Project will have a strong influence on University policy, we will suggest a meeting of the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences," James L. McKenney, professor of Business Administration and a member of the Coordinating Committee, said yesterday...
...Pickled Bat. Elsewhere one-room teachers, more open to new methods, take advantage of their unique situation to create a modern ideal: the ungraded school. In a five-year-old, electrically heated brick school amid the rolling hills of Acton, Mont., 20 miles from Billings, Mrs. Lorna McKenney, 40, lets her nine pupils ignore grade lines, develop at any pace they can. Lugene Ivie, in her second year, reads so fast she stumbles over the words...
When a child surpasses in arithmetic, his name goes on the blackboard in colored chalk. One day last week, five names were on the board and, explained Mrs. McKenney, "Connie's name should also be in color, but yellow is the only color left and she detests yellow." The school's prized science exhibit is a pickled bat; its biologically educational mascot is a live monkey...
...McKenney insists that her school compares favorably with most city schools. "We have a full day of teaching here. No breaks for announcements. No running in the halls. No stopping in the middle of a sentence when the bell rings. These kids here aren't underprivileged...
...Rather Sorry Places." Yet one-room schools are dying for sound and substantial reasons. Mrs. Lundberg may preserve good three-R education, and Mrs. McKenney may prove that a one-room school can adopt new trends. But the bulk of such schools, says Robert Isenberg of the N.E.A.'s rural-education department, "tend to be rather sorry, ill-equipped places." Buildings are as much as 100 years old. Most of the teachers have had less than four years of college training...