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...suburban Milwaukee, the Rev. Oscar Winninghoff of St. Aloysius' parish, said that his school would discontinue the first four grades in September 1965. Having failed to persuade the local public-school board to build a new 24-room school to educate children of his parish in secular subjects, Father Winninghoff said: "I'm going to quit talking. I'm saying, 'Here are 600 kids -you solve the problem. And I'm giving you a year and a half to solve it.' " Some parochial-school classes have been closed in Green Bay, Wis., Saginaw, Mich...
Novelist Benedictus, who had a solidly scandalous success with a first novel, The Fourth of June, about the seamier side of public-school life, unfolds his story with brevity and considerable wit. He has a fine comic flair for translating the mechanized absurdities of big-city life into visions of surrealist fantasy. But in the last chapters of You're a Big Boy Now, his story loses its fine farcical edge, and he makes the fatal mistake of taking his hero seriously. He would have done well to keep in mind a famous aphorism observed by Evelyn Waugh: "Never...
...last fall, James B. Conant has been under heavy fire from teachers' groups - and with good reason. The main target of Conant's book is the "bankrupt" system of teacher certification by which states dictate what courses a potential teacher must take in college to get a public-school license. The result, he charged, is that colleges are forced to teach insipid "Mickey Mouse" courses that turn out uneducated teachers. Conant's solution: abolish the state rules, free colleges to upgrade teacher training, make classroom performance the test of certification...
...fizzle!" scoffed James B. Donovan, president of New York City's Board of Education. "A whoopee success!" cried a Negro leader. Such were the wildly opposing verdicts last week as almost half of New York's 1,000,000 public-school children-464,362, to be exact-stayed home during a one-day boycott protesting de facto segregated schools. Allowing for hooky players and the normal 100,000 absentee rate, it was still the biggest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history...
Mild Blighty. Son of a distinguished London publisher, Alec went to his father's school, Sherborne, where he was everything a public-school boy should be: a star batsman at cricket, a fine forward at rugby, a winner of the English verse prize. What changed that Kiplingesque image was a mild flirtation he had with a younger boy. When it was discovered, the experience soured his last months in school but inspired the novel that brought him early fame -The Loom of Youth...