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...Clear Need." What about the poorest states? "The clear and present need," says the report, "is for federal financial assistance to the states that have extremely low personal incomes relative to the number of schoolchildren." In 1957-58, for example, eleven mainly Southern states with 22% of U.S. public school pupils spent less for education than 80% of the national average. To climb even to this level would have required a stiff (and "unlikely") spending boost, from 13% in Maine to 63% in Mississippi...
...been stricken in the Los Angeles area since New Year's, that 1,000,000 were laid up last week (500,000 of them in the city of Los Angeles, an equal number in surrounding communities). Across the nation, outbreaks were spotty. Boston reported up to 20% of schoolchildren absent. Pittsburgh was hard hit. Cleveland had 254 teachers out (5% of the force), and many schools had 15% or more of pupils absent. In Columbus and Detroit, the flu wave appeared to be breaking. In several Texas cities-Houston, San Antonio and Austin -the worst seemed over, but Brownsville...
...brilliant sun at Karachi's airport to be greeted by Pakistan's President, blunt, Sandhurst-trained General Mohammed Ayub Khan. Together they rode into the city in an open white Cadillac, past half a million cheering people-women in veils or tentlike burgas, tens of thousands of schoolchildren waving flags, armed sailors and soldiers carefully spaced to prevent unruly exuberance. Down the freshly cleaned streets they drove, past prairies of rubble still redolent with the smell of refugees, even though special squads had worked all night to deodorize the area with scented water and citronella (the refugees...
...quietly reasoned new book, Catholic Viewpoint on Education (Hanover House; $3.50). In the past 60 years, Catholic parochial schools have more than quintupled their enrollment, become the nation's fastest-growing educational system. Last year they enrolled 4,900,000 students, about 14% of all U.S. schoolchildren (and as many as 60% in strongly Catholic communities). The future is clear: roughly 30% of all U.S. babies are born to Roman Catholic families. But parochial schools get no direct tax support: the First Amendment, as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, forbids it. Catholic parents (as well as Protestant...
Have children forgotten how to entertain themselves? Last week British grownups got the lowdown from an exuberant piece of scholarship: the Oxford University Press's new Lore and Language of Schoolchildren* TV may seem to be taming the last of the world's savage tribes, report Authors lona and Peter Opie, but juvenile culture is indestructible...