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...make it easier to spot defects. Just as public and private groups dispense helpful information about cancer and heart disease, similar groups could do a great deal to educate parents about their children's intellectual needs, about the danger signs to watch for, about sources of expert help. Preschool programs such as Head Start would have to be expanded to reach more children at the earliest possible age. Day-care centers are also useful, both for detecting problem cases and stimulating young minds...
...hostility of employers have scarcely encouraged women to fight for their rights. One who did was Mrs. Ida Phillips, who sued the Martin Marietta Corp, in Orlando, Fla.. and got the Supreme Court to rule that a woman cannot summarily be barred from employment just because she has preschool children. Another was Mrs. Sally Reed, who challenged an Idaho law giving preference to men as administrators of estates...
...last year proclaimed the 1970s as the "Right to Read" decade. It sounded like many another empty proclamation, except that in this instance the Government assigned the problem in part to the Children's Television Workshop, those truly wonderful folks who gave us the classic show of the preschool generation, Sesame Street. On Thursday night, Oct. 21, some 145 commercial channels will carry a sneak preview of what 18 months of research, a budget of $7,000,000* and the Workshop's wonted imagination have wrought. Judging from several prescreenings, The Electric Company, the new daily half-hour...
...Riles would pay the preschool bills with money now spent on the twelfth grade, upending "the current inverted pyramid shape of school finance, where the lower the grade, the less money per pupil is spent." The biggest gainers, he thinks, might be disadvantaged students -and the taxpayers. "Prevention is cheaper than remediation," he says. "A dollar spent on the very young goes farther than a dollar for the not-so-young who are in remedial classes or on welfare or, indeed, on the 'Wanted' bulletins of post office walls...
When he returns, Black discusses the cases he has seen with Reavell, who then decides whether treatment seems warranted. Reavell is the spark plug of the health center program. His practice runs the gamut of public health care -TB skin tests, immunizations, preschool exams, impetigo, cuts, prenatal care, venereal disease, chest X rays and family planning...