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...Rather Sorry Places." Yet one-room schools are dying for sound and substantial reasons. Mrs. Lundberg may preserve good three-R education, and Mrs. McKenney may prove that a one-room school can adopt new trends. But the bulk of such schools, says Robert Isenberg of the N.E.A.'s rural-education department, "tend to be rather sorry, ill-equipped places." Buildings are as much as 100 years old. Most of the teachers have had less than four years of college training...
...schools, says a report issued last week by Columbia University's Teachers College. The military has 300,000 students in schools all over the world, from Arctic huts to the National War College. In the U.S. alone are 300 military schools teaching 4,000 courses, from the three-R level to the Ph.D. Even the raw recruit now spends a third of his time in a classroom; the general gets the equivalent of two or three years of graduate study. To keep everyone learning off-duty as well, 33 correspondence schools provide 2,500 mail-order courses...
...teachers, and a 10% merit bonus for master teachers. Last year applications for teaching in Pittsburgh schools rose 65%. A skilled lobbyist, Gross quietly wrested $1,500,000 from experiment-minded foundations, got the state legislature to pass a i% wage tax for Pittsburgh schools. Gross calls himself "a three-R man," says: "I'd rather see eight hours of English than eight hours of driver education." More than a whopping $40,000 salary has lured him to New York. "The battle for better education will be won or lost in the big cities," he says, and New York...
Grace in Russian. Staffed by Fuller and two Ukrainian women teachers, Fuller's no-frill school charges only $50 a month. Obedient to his smallest wish, Fuller's kids start the day doing three-R lessons in Spanish, then shift to Russian, later to Greek, and finally English. In the one-room-schoolhouse tradition, the oldest help teach the youngest. Thus all proceed at their own pace. The smallest tot begins writing in script, assiduously copying such maxims as "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Art and science are similar exercises in demonstration, not experiment. Instead...
Into the state education code, said the commission, should go a stiff three-R curriculum. For the first grade: reading taught by phonics, writing with spelling (now often delayed until third grade), arithmetic emphasizing basic principles. Science and foreign languages should begin no later than sixth grade. From elementary grades on, statewide tests should check on each school's progress. To jolt high schools, state-run colleges should report on freshmen performances-and school boards should publish the results...