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...statement released last night, Bowle revealed that Paul H. Nitze, a member of the U. S. team at the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks, chaired yesterday's annual meeting. Former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Henry S. Rowen, president of the Rand Corporation, were among those who attended...
...novelty of a student-centered language arts curriculum imposes difficulties which "How Can I Tell You" has helped to overcome. Anne McNamara is in charge of the language curriculum at the Loker School, which has followed Moffett's teaching proposals for two years. "It would have been great if there were a show last year," she said. "We would have known what we were supporting. Kids follow the program and it loosened up teachers. Last year we had to write out pantomimes and plays...
...energy and shouted to be wound up again. Another group played race cars, an announcer ran around balls on an imaginary pool table, and a group improvised on the theme of being lost in the woods. "Children are the center of our curriculum," said Anne McNamara. "Other thins revolve around them. We can completely justify 'How Can I Tell You" in our curriculum. It's a beginning and a middle and with it we can teach kids how to make long sentences without lists and diagrams. Teachers used to say, 'I've taught possessives for a year and they still...
...Tell You" occupies a vital place in the restructured curricula in the Angier and Loker Schools. "Kids who were slow readers have become much more communicative and much more interested," said Anne McNamara, "and incidentally, they read much better." The value of curriculum reform independent of changes in society is questionable. Motivation to learn is not dependent solely on relationships in the classroom. Pleasing television shows cannot erase the effects of alienation and exploitation. But curriculum planning and teaching methods can take advantage of some of what is known about child development. A classroom structured around a child's needs...
This year the Visiting Committee includes such national figures as Lincoln Gordon, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil from 1961 to 1966; Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense and the current President of the World Bank; Charles W. Yost, former Ambassador to Laos and the United Nations; and Harry S. Rowen, president of the Rand Corporation...