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PHILIPPINES. Since the war, when sisters spent three years in internment camps, six large schools and a hospital have been built up. HAWAII. Six schools, a children's home, a social-service bureau, and release-time religious classes of thousands of schoolchildren...
...lost its skill. After journeying to Hong Kong last year, at 72, she has reached deep into the heart of the present darkness. Her novel evokes the "New China"-public confessions, students marching and singing. "Defeat the savage-hearted American wolf," brainwashed Mu San leading a party of schoolchildren to a beheading in order to harden Communist discipline. Venture into Darkness is a terrifying look at a tyranny trying to convert China into "600 million mindless people, swayed by the mind of one man, one idea...
...Quack, Quack." Since the 1920s, most American schoolchildren have been taught to memorize the "appearance" of words, one after another, like Chinese characters, without reference to the sounds of the individual letters that make up each word. By this "word method," largely developed at teachers colleges and schools of education, children must plow through endless illustrated stories, in which words are repeated over and over. Sample text...
...tests-the explosion of an "atomic device" atop a 500-ft. tower. On the first scheduled test day, weather calculations showed that the radioactive cloud from a dawn explosion would be passing over the town of Caliente, Nev. (pop. 1,000), about 50 miles away, at about the time schoolchildren were standing on the street corners waiting for buses. For the next three days, there were similar problems. Actually, the AEC did not think that the tests would produce dangerous fallout, but they had to think of public reaction. Said one atomic expert: "We're interested in minimizing...
...wake of considerable parental protest, the Washington, D.C. school board was considering a move to abandon the school system's gradeless type of modern report card for elementary schoolchildren. If the move goes through, a pupil will no longer be competing only with himself for such vague comments as "satisfactory," "outstanding," or "needs much improvement." Instead, he will be expected to perform the work for the grade he is in-and get the old-fashioned A, B, C, D or U (for unsatisfactory...