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...school teaches the usual British public-school curriculum, but in a way that would make most public teachers' hair stand on end. There are no examinations (says Headmaster Neill: "They are easy methods of discovering what isn't worth discovering"). There is no compulsion to attend classes. Says plump, pleasant Mrs. Neill: "The young children are so terribly active with their own interests, they often do not attend school much until they reach the age of twelve...
Carefully Ignored. The Central High report, written seven years ago, had been carefully ignored. Philadelphia kept to its policy of promoting all pupils in its public-school classes, regardless of whether they had made the grade. Purpose: to keep backward students in their own age groups. Result: the dullards retarded the whole class; teaching was geared to the lowest instead of the highest common intelligence...
...Something Wrong." As long as he could, School Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard kept mum. The issue was a "family matter," he insisted, and not one for public debate. To his surprise, parents of public-school pupils also began to write letters to newspapers. In a special poll, the Bulletin found that a thumping majority of them wanted to abolish the mass-promotion system. Said the 1,000 members of the Big Four Fathers' Association: "We've felt for a long time there was something wrong with the school system. Now, someone has put his finger...
Little pitchers not only have big ears, but they fill up faster than grownups think they do. At least, so says Robert H. Seashore, Northwestern University psychologist. After testing vocabularies of Illinois public-school children for more than six years, he is convinced that the average first-grader knows about ten times as many words as he is supposed...
Chicago had to make up for ten years of inept and corrupt public-school administration. For months, a reform school board had been looking for a man to clean up the disorder left by Mayor Ed Kelly's stooge, Superintendent William Johnson. The reform board, appointed with the approval of Chicago's new businessman mayor, Martin H. Kennelly, had found Chicago's teaching staff unhappy victims of political conniving and its school system on the blacklist of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Last week, the board unanimously confirmed 45-year-old Herold...