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...record this season. Rounding out the lineup for San Diego Coach Ed Collins--who claimed Coach of the Year in the highly-competitive California Region VIII--is number-three J.R. Edwards (24-8), number-four Chris Toomey (23-9), number-five Kevin Bradley (27-6) and number-six Thomas Simonsen...
...population), Mobral has established 67,000 centers throughout the country. Yet despite the scope of the program, the cost of making a student literate is only $9.33, about $25 less than a UNESCO-estimated average. "There is nothing very new in the didactic methods," explains Economist Mario Henrique Simonsen, head of Mobral. "The structure had to be simple, and it had to be cheap. We had to use the available assets in the municipalities. Additionally, the average Mobral teacher makes only about $15 a month." To see how the program works, TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch visited several schools and filed...
...many dropouts. a lack of real literacy among those who finish. In fact, so basic is the literacy of many graduates that they are referred to as being merely "alphabetized." "Obviously we could improve our productivity if we ran the program like a United Nations lab project," says Simonsen. "But that costs much more and it wouldn't remove the problem, which is adult illiteracy. We knew we would lose a lot of people when we started. If you want to teach 2,000,000 to read, you have to get 4,000,000 into school...
...interest in Captain Simonsen's enterprise has brought with it some special demands. One woman explorer wrote him that she and her two teen-age daughters were embarking on a two-year seafaring voyage along the aborigine-inhabited north coast of Australia-with no knowledge of boats or the area. Captain Simonsen, who sailed the waters as a civilian employee in the Army's Transportation Corps, now finds himself technical consultant to the expedition. Along with these results came some echoes of the past. Simonsen got a friendly phone call from a man who, when an alcoholic...
...experienced a rather warm feeling ourselves when Captain Simonsen wrote to tell us of all this and ended up saying that "nothing can ever match the response from a story in TIME...