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...school, attempting a radical departure from current educational practices, can benefit from comment and discussion. Your article about Palfrey Street School (a name mispelled by the Crimson eleven times and spelled correctly three times) showed sensitivity to the spirit of the school, some errors of fact, and some errors, I think, of emphasis...
...risky, and important, bue we are trying to create a school that can demonstrate that teaching and learning require diversity, and that we can create, through our determination, a community out of diverse elements. It's the hardest kind of teaching and learning that there is. Edward Ryerson Director Palfrey Street School
Whatever the method, "communication" has become the password at Palfrey. To this end the whole school, all 55 members, meets together several times a week for special community discussions and assemlbies...
...rare for students to come to Palfrey with D and E averages which might disqualify them from admission to other private schools. In most cases faculty members claim that the small classes, the lack of competition for grades, and the easy communication with teachers has transformed their school careers...
...immensely popular teacher at Shady Hill, Ryerson is now the major force behind the Palfrey Street School. Working with his wife, Alice, the school psychologist, he is putting into practice his own theory of liberal education, teaches daily English classes, maintains a constant personal involvement in every detail of the problems of individual students and faculty members, as well as fulfilling his administrative duties...