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State Crutches. Despite such criticism, Labor has charted a number of programs designed to change the quality of British life in the coming decade, particularly in education. The party has promised to build more elementary schools. At present, about 70% of British schoolchildren are denied, at the age of eleven, the chance for broader secondary-school or higher education. They finish their schooling at 15. Labor intends to alleviate this problem. It also plans to move toward more regional autonomy, answering the growing distaste for centralized planning now cropping up in the provinces...
...Metzenbaum ran around him. Glenn could not escape marginally valuable autograph sessions with schoolchildren well below voting age; Metzenbaum had no such time-wasting troubles. Glenn had opposed the state Democratic organization six years ago. "John doesn't even bother to see the county chairman when he is in town," a Metzenbaum aide ob served. Glenn's opponent had managed two tough, victorious campaigns for Senator Stephen Young and made good use of the party pros...
...first glance the recent strange activity on the playing field of the St. Mary Magdalene school in Richmond, England, seemed to be a peculiarly British version of student militancy. Taking careful aim, 23 schoolchildren hurled a volley of eggs at their science master, Garth Willson, who was standing 40 feet away on the grass. Actually, it was simply a variation of a teaching technique that English secondary schools are scrambling to adopt: egg throwing...
...French schoolchildren are not forced to take a second language, critics say, at least half of them will drop such courses. Since more than 80% of France's lycee students choose English as their first foreign language, critics also worry that English will eventually gain an absolute monopoly-and not only in France...
Thus, when Fifth Avenue was closed to traffic for two hours, 100,000 New Yorkers walked up and down in an eerie quiet. In vacant lots, on roadsides from Boston to Sacramento, schoolchildren gathered up beer cans, soda bottles and old tires, as if picking up after a violent party...