Word: slum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today in P.S. 77, a Bronx elementary school in one of New York City's worst slum neighborhoods, Daisy has gained 18 months in reading skill after just nine months of study. Edward proudly volunteers to read to his class. Nicky has caught up to the reading level of his classmates. They owe their progress to Principal Julius Levine's unusual method of using music and dance to help kids learn to read...
...National Teachers Corp. will provide a pool of traveling teachers to help big-city systems with their slum schools...
...education whose investigators too often dwelt on such esoteric questions as whether 24 or 26 pupils were the best size for an elementary class. Today, 60% of the research is performed by experts outside education. Anthropologists Margaret Mead and Stanley Diamond, for example, are studying the culture patterns of slum schools. New York Composer Vittorio Giannini is developing a new music curriculum. Biographer Mark Schorer is looking for new techniques in teaching literature. Nobel Laureate William Shockley is exploring computer-programmed instruction. Keppel's office has ordered 28 studies alone on a single question: How do first-graders learn...
After four years of doing without schooling, Negro junior high students in Virginia's Prince Edward County returned to class in September 1963. In the course of the next 18 months, the average IQ of those children rose 18 points. In St. Louis, a cultural enrichment program in slum schools raised the pupils' average IQ by 11.5 points in four years...
Though tensions have eased, little else has noticeably changed since the riots. Not only are most of Watts's pillaeed stores still closed, but the slum is still without a single restaurant, bowling alley, roller rink or movie theater (the nearest cinema is a 60?, four-mile round-trip bus ride away). Men loll in clusters on front porches drinking Colt .45 beer. When a white man passes, a lanky teen-ager taunts him: "Better not be here at 5. That's when the riot's gonna start all over again." A police car drives...