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...Hickory, Dickory, Dock. As her ability to coordinate her body movements increased, she began to pronounce her first words. After that came years of phonetic drill and tongue exercises, but by the time she was eleven, she was able to enroll in a special class in the regular public-school system...
...parents of an eight-year-old blind child in the second grade, my husband and I were very pleased to read your sympathetic Dec. 10 article on the education of blind children alongside their sighted contemporaries in Chicago. The spread of the public-school program in this field is a source of gratification to the many people who have believed for years that blind people live in a sighted world and can best take their proper place in that world if they have not been segregated from...
...basis of such evidence, the majority members concluded that integration in Washington had not only been "too hasty," it had "seriously damaged the public-school system. Therefore, we recommend that racially separate public schools should be re-established...
...Though public-school men have already begun to denounce it as overly doctrinaire and often unjust in its criticisms, the council hopes to become a major clearing house of information for parents and teachers who are worried about present standards. Its monthly Bulletin (present circulation: 2,000) spotlights various school programs of high academic quality, reviews pertinent articles and books. In the current Bulletin, the council attacks various classroom distractions which, it claims, are justified by educationists "in the name of 'educating the whole child,' or of the Dewey-eyed notion that instead of preparing a child...
...National Education Association gave out its annual statistics on the growth and needs of the nation's public-school system. With 1,197,000 more pupils than last year, the U.S. now has a shortage of 180,000 teachers and 120,000 classrooms. There are 840,000 students getting only part-time schooling and 80,000 teachers without standard certificates. The most de pressing figure of all: partly because of low salaries, 97,000 teachers will drop out of the profession this year...