Word: prekindergartens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discourage the breakup of families. The commission urges creation of 2,000,000 jobs within three years, with remedial training where necessary. That may be an impossible goal, but it would get at the largest single source of criminal raw material-the out-of-school, out-of-work kids. Prekindergarten, primary and secondary education in the slums is another vast target, but it is universally acknowledged that public education does not do much for ghetto children. One commission proposal that deserves serious consideration is a twelve-month school year for the culturally undernourished...
Hansen sends teams of researchers into the streets to find dropouts, learn why they quit, try to lure them back. Of 1,300 located in one survey, 509 were talked into returning. Each accompanied by a parent, 150 prekindergarten children attend Saturday classes to help prepare for school. Twenty college students prepare for teaching careers by working with 100 potentially delinquent elementary school pupils. An Urban Service Corps recruits 1,000 adult volunteers, including such Government wives as Mrs. Robert McNamara and Mrs. Francis Keppel, to tutor children, take them to historical sites, advise parents...
Heaven for Educators. Parker permits such progressivisms as a science teacher bringing a live cow to class because "city children rarely see one." It shuns conventional marks through the eighth grade. And yet, the school heavily emphasizes the three Rs, beginning in prekindergarten. First-graders read the newspaper, and second-graders get daily drills in public speaking. Science has always been strong; college math and physics have been offered for years...