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Sesame Street, public television's McLuhanesque children's hour, has been on the air one year. From the beginning, its aim was to sharpen kids' cognitive skills. The target age was from three to five, the ideal target group, the culturally deprived. Inundated by enthusiastic mail and ecstatic reviews, Sesame Street became an indisputable hit. But does a "switched-on" classroom educate or merely entertain? To measure the results of the series, the Children's Television Workshop commissioned a nationwide study by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J. The report card has just come...
...black man living in the ghetto himself, he believes that the only way for the policeman to gain respect in the community is to reestablish ties with that Community. And in order to sharpen his understanding of the problems involved, he is returning to school at age 30 as a Fellow at the Law School's Center for Criminal Justice...
...E.C.S. asked a panel of reviewers to comment freely on the science report. Most expressed cautious hope that the country's schools will take a hard look at the results and sharpen their teaching accordingly. But one commentator, Curriculum Consultant Dr. Richard J. Merrill of California, livened his remarks with a list of "Pleasant and Unpleasant Surprises." A sampler of the Unpleasant: "Only 38% of nines and 49% of adults could time ten swings of a pendulum. Only 41% of 17s and 45% of adults knew the function of the placenta. Only 18% of 17s knew that nuclei...
Clearly, much more can be done to sharpen police performance and help curb crime. But in ultimate terms, Jerry Wilson, like other police chiefs, is pessimistic. Despite his successes, he strongly suspects that crime will proliferate until Americans begin to ask as much of the courts, the prisons and the schools as they now do of the police. As he put it with typical candor in a recent Senate hearing: "Our criminal-justice system is a failure. We are not preventing crime, we are not apprehending and convicting enough offenders, we are not rehabilitating enough convicts." Until significant progress...
...Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Maritime Commission, so that all three can be replaced by a single agency. Such an agency would be able to set a coherent national transportation policy, relying less on regulation and more on the free market to set rates. It would sharpen competition among companies in all forms of transport...