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...interest. They produced readers related to a child's own experiences, and in the 20th century, they started to control the number of words to be introduced. They argued about the merits of oral and silent reading; they also began to champion the idea of teaching a pupil to recognize words as wholes. Gradually, word-recognition became the vogue. "There's no doubt about it," says Elementary School Superintendent Oscar M. Chute of Evanston, 111. "Back in the '30s, some educators decided that phonics were no longer useful, so they got rid of phonics...
...kindergarten and the first grade, the teacher is supposed to know as much or more about each pupil as the child's mother. She must learn about his interests and his problems, check on whether he can follow directions, see that his sight and hearing are normal, observe how he reacts to his classmates and whether he is overly diffident in "social situations." Of 100 cases of reading disability, Paul Witty once found that 14% had defective vision, 12% were in poor health, 3% had poor hearing. But more important than these physical handicaps were the mental ones: lack...
...whoever the master, Fra Angelico was an apt pupil. His first Virgin and Child surpasses Monaco's in both draftsmanship and coloring. More important, Fra Angelico broke free from the rigid mold of medieval art; his Virgin is no longer two-dimensional, but a figure that turns in space with a life-giving gesture...
...Once a pupil has graduated at 17. he is ready to try for one of Russia's 33 universities, 800 technical institutes, or the various extension and correspondence courses offered. If he passes the necessary examinations, he immediately embarks on a course of study that soon narrows down to a tiny specialty. The five broad branches of study in Soviet professional education consist of 24 fields which are broken down into 295 specialties. These are further fragmented into 450 specializations which in turn are broken up into 510 subspecializations. There are no optional courses and no electives; nor does...
...Died. James Price Johnson, 61, jazz pianist, composer, teacher (star pupil: "Fats" Waller); of a stroke; in New York City. Among his 500 compositions: the original Charleston, If I Could Be with You, the opera Dreamy...