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Compared with most U.S. public-school systems, Hansen's English composition program is downright revolutionary. Theme writing starts as early as the second grade, and students in the two top high school tracks are required to write 24 themes a year. To help in the time-consuming grading job (chief obstacle in other cities), Hansen has arranged with Washington's militant P.T.A. for 20 college-women "lay readers." To Hansen, it is only a small beginning. By whatever pulling and prodding is necessary, stubborn Superintendent Hansen aims to give Washington's children a real education. Says...
...District Judge Frank A. Hooper to present an acceptable integration plan (TIME, June 15), the board delivered last week on schedule. Proposed: a pupil-placement plan patterned on the Alabama law, which the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled constitutional. If Judge Hooper accepts, Atlanta's 95,000 public-school students (40% Negro) will be integrated a class at a time from the twelfth grade down-a twelve-year process...
...Becoming a good teacher," said a veteran New York City public-school teacher, "has more in common with the process of becoming a good boxer or a combat soldier [than with medicine]. You do not have a subdued and cooperative patient; you have a mixed bag of restless unknown quantities in one room, no two of whom will react the same way. You get your brains knocked out a few times, and you get blown up several times. If you are a born teacher and not one fabricated by the professors of pedagogy, you become a first-class veteran, able...
...officer was U.S. Colonel Philip Cochran, who had won some fame of his own as the model for "Flip Corkin" in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. On their first meeting, Cochran thought Wingate was an elaborate hoax, and was so baffled by his British public-school accent (Charterhouse) that he was sure Wingate suffered from an impediment in his speech. But at their second meeting, Cochran found "something very deep" about him and realized he "was beginning to assimilate some of the flame of this guy Wingate...
...jumped to 36 million. From less than $215 million in 1900, the annual cost has soared to $14.4 billion (about 3% of the Gross National Product). Of all U.S. families, 40% have one or more children in public school.*Of all living Americans, one out of five is a public-school student...