Word: preschooling
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...York's Greenwich Village, the staff of Bank Street College of Education views the nation's scholas tic trends with a certain justifiable smugness. Bank Street itself has for many years been a yeasty factor in one of U.S. education's newest preoccupations: the preschool teaching of young children. Now observing its 50th anniversary, the college suddenly finds its expertise in great demand...
Fight for Acceptance. Book publishers, scenting big sales, are rushing to give ethnic groups a better break on their pages. The N.A.A.C.P.'s education director, June Shagaloff, says that 175 elementary and preschool books-mostly readers, health and science texts-now meet N.A.A.C.P. standards. But she complains that not enough school systems are buying them. Sales have been made mostly to schools in large northern cities, but the books are also in use in parts of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Publishers are so competitive that they commonly do not divulge sales; McGraw-Hill, however, reports...
...preschool training is great for rich kids in nursery school and for poor kids in the Government's Head Start program, why shouldn't every parent get busy and give his child a head start at home? That reasoning, stimulated by parental pride and fear, has led to a barrage of books and packages that offer to help Mommy teach Baby how to read, add numbers and raise his IQ, even while he is sitting on the potty...
...Teach Your Baby to Read is an almost evangelical ode to early learning by Physical Therapist Glenn Doman, who has been teaching preschool children with brain damage to read at Philadelphia's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. He contends that almost every young child has a "built-in rage for learning" and that parents have "a sacred duty to open the floodgate of all basic knowledge to him." Doman claims that a baby will take to the written word as easily as to the spoken language and can even learn to read before he learns to speak...
...controversy will rage until educators produce reliable studies of the long-range effects of parental preschool teaching. No one knows whether a grasp of algebra at five makes a boy a sharper mathematician at 25. Meanwhile, all the experts urge caution-and even Doman and the Engelmanns concede that impatient parents, who tense up when Timmy says "saw" as he looks at the word was, ought to forget the whole thing...