Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, asked why Greek schoolchildren are taught in Katherevousa, a mixture of ancient and modern Greek which had recently been spoken only in select circles, and now the official language-he said that it differs from modern Greek only as much as proper diction differs from slang...
Before the 1967 coup, the liberal regime of Pre-mier George Papandreou and the economic ministry of his son, Andreas, had emphasized the development of widespread free education. Nine years of compulsory schooling, free textbooks and free lunches for all schoolchildren were a feature of pre-coup Greece...
...Schoolchildren are now taught in Katherevousa, a once-obscure mixture of ancient and modern Greek, which many observers consider a linguistic throwback designed "to keep information and education away from the masses," as one anti-junta activist said...
...distributed some 5,230 tons of powdered milk in a heroic (though not quite successful) effort to keep his campaign pledge to provide a quart of milk a day for every Chilean under 15. His government has ordered 500,000 pairs of shoes for free distribution to rural schoolchildren. He has refused to permit the customary presidential portrait to be hung in government buildings and budgeted the savings to rural health programs. By imposing price controls, he hopes to shrink inflation from 34.9% in 1970 to 10% this year...
...plan to give local governments more spending power also calls for dismantling some Great Society programs that did specific things for specific people -paying for remedial-reading teachers for poor schoolchildren, for instance. Nixon means to pool many of those resources under a broader rubric, in this case, education. It would be up to the state or the city getting the federal money to spend as it chose, as long as the general purpose of education was advanced. No one, not even the experts at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, can yet say for certain how such crucial...