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Below Norms. While Rafferty has stressed emotional issues like drugs and busing, Riles concentrates on education. He notes that a recent evaluation showed that statewide gains in reading have still left 65% of the first, second-and third-graders below national norms. His proposed remedy: make a preschool program available to every California child. He also feels that teaching reading mainly through old-fashioned phonics, which Rafferty favors, is oversimple, and that many students can benefit from other methods...
...court will get a full-scale introduction to Women's Lib when it hears the case of Mrs. Ida Phillips, who was denied an assembly-line job at a Martin Marietta Corp. plant in Florida because she was the mother of preschool children. Mrs. Phillips and the Justice Department, in a friend-of-the-court brief, contend that the company violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination against women in employment. In addition, the court will be asked to decide whether the First Amendment wall separating church and state was breached by a recently passed Pennsylvania statute providing...
Dime a Dozen. Actually, the oversupply of teachers is largely confined to certain subjects. By one estimate, for example, the U.S. now has 15,000 qualified social studies teachers who cannot find jobs in their field. At the same time shortages still exist in math and science, preschool education, guidance work, industrial arts and programs for the handicapped. The changing job market may even improve teaching slightly as administrators stop hiring instructors with minimum qualifications. Says Siskiyou's Assistant Superintendent Bob Dais: "Master's degrees are a dime a dozen...
...Leaving aside the woman who has no one to support her, if a woman can't stand staying home with her preschool children at the most crucial stage of their lives, what in the world did she have them for? Who is supposed to run these round-the-clock child-care centers-robots? Men? Other downtrodden women? I raised four children and it was a labor of love, but I have no desire to raise someone else's children. In my opinion, it has nothing to do with Women's Liberation but is just plain passing...
Schools and universities will help to break down traditional sex roles, even when parents will not. Half the teachers will be men, a rarity now at preschool and elementary levels; girls will not necessarily serve cookies or boys hoist up the flag. Athletic teams will be picked only by strength and skill. Sexually segregated courses like auto mechanics and home economics will be taken by boys and girls together. New courses in sexual politics will explore female subjugation as the model for political oppression, and women's history will be an academic staple, along with black history, at least...