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Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co. is generating a little extra electricity these days. Twice a week 16 representatives of the utility firm visit the Michele Clark Middle School in a poverty-ridden district on Chicago's West Side to teach the principles of supplying energy to the neighborhood. Youngsters from eight classes survey the school's area, christened Clark City for purposes of the project, and assess the needs through scale drawings and detailed models, complete with wiring, batteries and lights. Says Anton Anderson, 12: "I know all about kilowatts now and B.T.U.s. That's British...
...lessons in offshore engineering for the gifted. In Boston, the Bank of New England donated $300,000 for a five-year program to recognize and reward outstanding teachers. In Atlanta, Rich's department store has helped start an academy in an unused portion of its downtown store to teach basic courses as well as black history to 100 high school dropouts and potential dropouts. The Dolores Canning Co. in East Los Angeles provides monthly prizes for a good-citizen program at the nearby Hammel Street Elementary School. Says Principal Charles Lavagnino: "The Dolores people help us any way they...
Ranee Grain, editor in chief of Grain's Chicago Business, a financial weekly, admits that an element of self-interest is behind his firm's decision to teach journalism in Carl Schurz High School. But Grain defines that self-interest broadly: "A weak school system means weak students, and that means weak employees, weak managers-and a weak society." -By Ellie McGrath...
Horn agrees that most of his sailors just have the talent in them. "Really good sailors have an instinct you can't teach...
...physical requirements of policework do not frighten her. "They teach you at the academy not to use your hands, to use the equipment you're issued," she says of possible confrontations, adding that she is "as qualified to use a baton...