Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole business can be summed up and righted by one revolutionary step: the schools must return at once to their proper function -the intellectual process...
Contagious Tastes. The crumbling of the old national barriers is neither a conscious nor idealistic process. Says a cynical Parisienne: "If the whole youth of Europe was told, 'You are a unity from the Elbe to the Atlantic,' its answer would be, 'We could not care less.' " Yet, in practice, young Europeans recognize their kinship. "Wherever I go in Western Europe," says a Berlin physics student, "I feel as if we all have the same blood group. We don't really have to bother to get acquainted, because there's nothing strange about anybody...
...last-minute question about a change of mind, insisted the Reds would be "a breach of human rights." Tight as their control over their followers appeared, the Reds had not forgotten that in U.N. prisoner-of-war camps at the end of the Korean war, a similar questioning process had turned up an embarrassing 14,000 Chinese Communist soldiers who, in the last analysis, preferred homesickness to slavery...
...York City and one in Washington, D.C. The first is being carried out by the New York City Youth Board, applying the table to about 250 boys in the first grade of two public schools in high delinquency areas in the Bronx. This experiment has been in process since 1953, and will be continued until the youths are about 17 years...
...reply to it in a space provided in a small rectangular box. Then, by shifting a lever, he exposes the correct answer. He can thus compare his answer promptly with the correct one, and the immediate reinforcement that takes place is reputed to be extremely valuable in the learning process. The spelling machine also has the virtue of allowing children to work at their own rate of progress with material of the degree of difficulty most appropriate for them...