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Balloons & Feathers. The school's 150 pupils range from 4½ to the late teens. When they enter Clarke, many have never said a word, not even their own names. To get the sound "buh-buh-buh" across, a teacher may place her lips against a balloon, while the pupil places his on the other side. As the sound is repeated, the pupil learns it from the vibrations he feels. The "f" sound can be taught by holding a feather close to the mouth and seeing how it flutters when the consonant is spoken correctly. Puffing at a slip...
...allowed for the first time to sound off without going through administrative channels, the New York City Board of Education heard some gloomy news about the state of the city's secondary education. Teacher morale, said six principals of academic high schools, has reached an alltime low while pupil insolence has hit a record high. Not only must the teacher cope with proven delinquents because there are not facilities enough to handle them; he must also take in a host of virtual nonreaders from the lower schools. Said Principal John McNeill of Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School...
...newald, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Holbein the Younger and Martin Luther's great friend, Lucas Cranach-whose work made Germany for half a century the leader of the Northern Renaissance. The level of excellence achieved in this brief period is shown by Cranach's son and pupil, Lucas Cranach the Younger. Starting with a piece of paper tinted slightly pink, the young Cranach sketched the head and shoulders of the young Princess Elizabeth of Saxony (see color page) with quick brush strokes of brown ink, then tinted the face and hair with oil paint. The result...
...schools must face the problems of both the slow learner and the gifted pupil...
...their present grade structure," says Bestor, comprehensive, essay-type examinations should be restored as "the basic means of evaluating educational preparations and measuring educational achievement." Comprehensive testing, he says, is the answer to at least one big problem: how to give the best education to bright but needy pupils. It is an injustice to charge both the dull and the bright pupil the same college tuition, because one is potentially more valuable to society than the other. Bestor would bill everyone for full tuition, but reduce the bill on the basis of entrance examinations, giving top students free tuition...