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...teaching machines' stoutest advocates feel that they can do much more than that. They argue that "programed learning," which is what they feed into teaching machines, can not only improve and speed up teaching, but can greatly increase the pupil's ability to grasp and retain. Programed learning is being tested on thousands of youngsters across the nation. Already it promises the first real innovation in teaching since the invention of movable type in the 15th century...
...state and local governments would have to divert nearly all of their revenue to education alone. Yet 15 poor states are already making a greater financial effort than the U.S. average, and cannot meet national educational standards. For example, Mississippi spends 3.7% of personal income to raise $225.86 per pupil, while Delaware, by spending only 2.8%, raises...
...billion in new federal expenditure over the next five years. As the President sees it, the Federal Government should make annual grants of some $900 million to the states to build new public schools and supplement teacher salaries (based on a figure of $30 a year per pupil, with a bonus for low-income states and complex big-city plants), provide an additional $100 million for teacher-training...
...land, Candidate John F. Kennedy vowed to back king-sized federal aid to education, and his post-election task force on education three weeks ago urged the spending of more than $9 billion over the next 4½ years, including no-strings grants of $30-$50 per public school pupil. If the soberer President-elect seemed unsure "whether we have the resources immediately to take on the whole program," Kennedy still aimed at massive federal aid. Then last week his fellow Roman Catholic, New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, voiced a loud objection; some of the money, he said...
...district's performance as compared with its possibilities. Key is the property tax, source of local school income. The magazine figured out the actual market value of all property in 1,200 sample districts across the U.S., and in each case divided into the total the number of pupils to be educated from the property tax. Result: the true wealth behind each pupil-if citizens cared to tax it heavily enough. Calculating what each district spent per pupil as a percentage of the wealth behind him gives the district's index of effort...