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...visit twice, and two weeks ago wrote to the local newspaper to ask for clippings of stories about his son. Heinz, who soon became Henry, adapted much more easily. In Germany, he had been an average student. In Manhattan's George Washington High School, he became a straight-A pupil...
...first lesson as a teacher, that is. When he talks about his childhood in Moscow, he says only that he was the son of an Armenian cotton merchant, a shy boy who wanted to be a concert violinist. But after his teacher sent him a ten-year-old pupil of his own, Galamian discovered that he had an even deeper instinct for teaching. By the time he settled in Paris at the age of 21, his lessons were so much in demand that he had no time to think about performing. He might still be teaching in Paris today...
...when it argued that its members stood to lose painfully gained job security if local committees were totally free to hire and fire teachers. Yet many New Yorkers were outraged by Shanker's own extremist rhetoric and by his arrogance in tying up the entire 1,100,000-pupil system over a dispute at one school...
...Pupil Response. Admen go to extraordinary lengths in trying to determine whether the result of all their effort is effective or not. Prior to launching a commercial, agencies screen it before test audiences and run a series of checks and quintuple checks that are as elaborate as those for a space shot. Lie detectors, word association, sentence completion and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory are among a few of the methods used. Foote, Cone & Belding lugs rearview projectors to homes to get verdicts. Kenyon & Eckhardt plays TAG (Target Attitudinal Group), a method of extensive indirect questioning...
Tuition at the Orthogenic School is high-$8,000 per year. Even that fails to cover the true cost, which is $12,000 per pupil. To make up the difference and pay for the one-third of the students who receive scholarships, Bettelheim relies on foundation grants and grateful parents. Of the severely disturbed children he has treated, one is now teaching clinical psychology at Harvard. Another teaches educational psychology at Stanford. A third has gone on to become a New York stockbroker who, says Bettelheim, is "working on his second million...