Word: method
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Most American schools, an 90 to 95 per cent of the reading texts for beginning readers, use the "meaning method"--emphasizing the content of written words in an effort to associate reading with the child's daily life...
...Chall used a $14,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation to reanalyze data from 67 major studies on reading, to visit over 300 classrooms, and to interview proponents of various theories on the teaching of reading. She concluded that children learn to read better when taught by a "decoding method.'- on which emphasizes learning the alphabet and breaking the codes of written words in their first few years of instruction...
Most of the research since then, Chall contends, has been "shockingly inconclusive," but on the basis of her re-evaluation she concludes that "the re-search from 1912 to 1965 indicates that a code-emphasis method ...produces better results...
Throughout her campaign, Mrs. Ackermann has called for the City Council to retrieve some of the decision-making power that has slipped into the Manager's hands. She has also supported a "more definite" method of selecting City Managers. She has said that the Council should talk to a prospective manager and determine whether his conception of the job agrees with their...
Perhaps the Suzuki method will in time overcome the U.S. shortage. Until it does, chances are that more and more orchestras will look to the Far East. The Orientals are not only more available but competent and eager as well. As Isaac Stern explains: "A top-class Tokyo violinist starts at less than $100 a month, while in America today an orchestral musician is a member of an elite, well-paid profession." Adds Master Teacher Galamian, only partly in jest: "There was a time when all the finest violinists were Jewish and came from Odessa. Maybe now they will...