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...began when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to throw schoolchildren into the Negro battle line. Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, arch-segregationist, viciously retaliated with club-swinging cops, police dogs and blasts of water from fire hoses. There were no winners in Birmingham last week...
...Petit-Clamart, began at Sedan, where so many jubilant thousands crowded the square before city hall that De Gaulle called upon his critics to note well his enthusiastic reception. As he moved on through the green meadows of the Meuse valley, every village was filled with rubber-booted farmers, schoolchildren with flags, drum and bugle corps. At Charleville, the crowd overflowed the arcaded square, and De Gaulle jeered at "those who would prefer that everything failed, either because it is in their nature or because they count on finding in a setback-but aren't they mistaken?-some chance...
...Edmonds school district north of Seattle is a once rural area that in ten years of suburban spread has acquired almost 22,000 schoolchildren. With such pressure, its schools might well be awful. But so appealing is its remarkable Maple Park Elementary School that people living outside its area have been known to smuggle in their kids by parking them with legal residents. The lure at Maple Park, first public school of its kind in the Pacific Northwest, is the "ungraded primary"-a new way of organizing grade schools that may soon become standard across...
...double Peru's rural school attendance since the program began; school absenteeism in Bolivia has dropped from 38% to 2%, and students now make sure to be on time since latecomers go to the end of the lunch line. Each day in Mexico, more than 1,000,000 schoolchildren receive the donated food. "The lunch is the only reason a lot of parents send their children to school," says Djalma Maranhão, mayor of Natal in Brazil's impoverished Northeast. In Brazil alone, some 3 billion glasses of milk a year are distributed in 25,000 public...
...recommend a single fifth-grade American history text. They talk of the wives of pioneers making linsey-woolsey dresses and men chopping down trees, but they omit things like the Monroe Doctrine. They are not subversive but childish. A fifth-grader deserves something better. I want elementary schoolchildren taught love of country at an early age. I make no bones about this. If this is indoctrination, I don't understand the meaning of the word. It's just common sense. There isn't any need for flag waving or emotionalism. All we need to do is teach...