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...when the new year begins. If overcrowding results, students will be assigned to the schools nearest their homes, without regard to race or color. The state is enjoined to foster integration in all other areas of public education: the location of new schools, faculty assignments, bussing, and spending per pupil...
...through Nebraska's conservative, unicameral legislature a sales-income tax package that left New Hampshire the only state in the union with neither a sales nor an income tax. Nebraska still stands far down the list of states on public services. It is 39th in educational expenditures per pupil, 41st in teachers' salaries, last in state aid to public schools. Though its two conservative Republican senators-Carl Curtis and Roman Hruska-have given the state an image of doughty self-reliance, it is not reluctant to accept federal handouts: in 1965 only five other states received more federal...
Reading was not always so hectic. In fact, the whole idea of rapid silent reading is less than 35 years old. Until the 1920's, reading instruction in America stressed accurate oral reading almost exclusively. The good reader was the pupil who could sight read aloud with expression and fluency. Then experimenters at the University of Chicago demonstrated what appears obvious today: by the fourth grade most students can read silently faster than orally. They proved, furthermore, that comprehension and retention is significantly better after silent reading...
...Says Roderic C. Hodgins, who has taught Harvard's reading course more than anybody else in the past five years, "It is like teaching somebody to ride a bicycle. It is perfectly easy to tell him what is done, but you cannot train a sense of balance.... The pupil says 'teach me to read faster,' but I can't grab hold of his eyeballs and wiggle them for him. You are trying to tell the average guy about something which is highly idiosyncratic. It is here that I begin to think to teach is an intransitive verb...
...saddled the Negro community with "markedly inferior educational opportunities." More than 25% of the Negro high schools in Alabama are unaccredited, compared with 3.4% of the white schools. Moreover, Alabama's investment in school buildings and equipment is $607 for each white student, only $295 for every Negro pupil. The court order allows every student to enroll in the school of his choice starting next fall and implies that punitive action will be taken against state and school board officials who seek to evade the ruling. It also tosses out as unconstitutional a state law under which tuition grants...