Word: school
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...camp dreamed up by Dickens and Freud, it has successfully straightened out disturbed youngsters who had failed to respond to treatment elsewhere. One boy, who is due to graduate next spring, had previously been expelled from a state mental hospital as uncontrollable. A recent graduate, now working on the school staff while he waits to enter college, had a long theft-and-burglary record. Until the school turned him around, he had an unusual career goal: to be a bank robber...
...school is the brainchild of Mike DeSisto, 40, a bearded and pudgy teacher turned therapist. For eleven years, DeSisto was the salaried director of Lake Grove, a Long Island school where he developed his therapeutic program. Fired after he was accused by the Lake Grove trustees of trying to break up the school, the strong-willed DeSisto announced plans to found his own school; and most of the faculty and student body quit to go with him. Parents of the kids were loyal too. DeSisto bought the Stockbridge property with tuition money they paid in advance...
...Federal Government, which now pays only 5% of national library costs. A U.S. Senate proposal to study such a shift has been sponsored by New York Senator Jacob Javits. Like many another U.S. child of immigrant parents, Javits traces his rise from poverty to the hours he spent after school-working away in the neighborhood public library on the Lower East Side...
...Savannah, Ga., publishers of the Measuring Cup, a newsletter devoted solely to testing reform; the National P.T.A.; the United States Student Association; Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and the National Education Association, a union of some 1.8 million teachers and school officials...
...weeks ago at the NEA headquarters in Washington, the air resounded with attacks on testing. Representatives of reform-minded organizations plus a smattering of professors, school administrators and test experts from 28 states gathered at a meeting organized by a cumbersomely titled group ("Project to DEmystify the Established Standardized Tests"). Some of the delegates even grumbled about the national turn toward required competency tests for promotion of elementary and high school students. P.T.A. Representative Ann Kahn said that due to testing, elementary school curriculums are now concentrating on test scores-to the exclusion of basics like good writing. Ralph Nader...