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...even now it is clear that all the students are quite excited about science and are going out and buying telescopes or constructing homemade instruments of one sort or another. And the kids interested in science do not scorn history, nor are they likely to concentrate on only one kind of science, for they see the importance of a wide range of understanding. The early returns, including a Walden junior who has just been admitted to the class of 1962 here, are most encouraging for this new program.Here Walden eighth graders examine, with a teacher, a map of the United...
...unfortunately. For the inadequacies of present-day education, where uninspired, underpaid teachers and administrators are willing to go along with any convenient, easy, well-tried program, demand that some sort of watchdog eye be placed on the schools, to insure that the best possible education can be achieved. Education in this part of the twentieth century has become an all-out community affair, with the isolationism of the academic school of the nineteenth century gone forever. The new--as one authors calls the "life-centered"--approach to education demands the interaction of the student with the community, effected through school...
...have set out to improve the school systems, on the verge of adulteration by the Supreme Court, by urging upon the state legislatures bills abolishing integrated public schools. This fall, these parents will sit placidly by while all the public schools in the state become private and, until some sort of reverse legislation takes place, their children will remain at home, unschooled...
Thus some parental influence is unavoidable; and in some communities it is the only factor which preserves any sort of decent education. But if parental interests do not co-operate with school and public interests, little progress is possible; and if they co-operate in the wrong way, a stultifying and authoritarian atmosphere may result...
...will rise to $1,250 next year) was as startling a leap as any. The increases were occasioned by a frantic haste to recoup for faculty salaries the comparative losses they had suffered since before the war, and in each year of '58's residence there was some sort of faculty salary increase, either direct or indirect...