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...certain films to attract violent criticism and equally strong support, is not a mark of greatness; it is, rather, an indication that technical or stylistic innovations have been strikingly exploited, or that an extreme statement has been made. Citizen Kane and L'Avventura, a classic and a mediocre trump-up, fall into the first category. Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux and Stanley Kramer's new work fall into the latter...
...Harper; $3.95) is an eloquent case, by the articulate president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, for high standards at all levels of U.S. society. And to the extent that standards can be raised by drastically reorganizing schools, the year's most influential blueprint is J. Lloyd Trump's and Dorsey Baynhan's Guide to Better Schools (Rand McNally; $1.25), which is already revamping high schools across...
...most drastic of the many plans for revamping U.S. high schools is that of the Trump Commission, a group of Young Turk schoolmasters financed by the Ford Foundation and headed by J. Lloyd Trump, Associate Secretary of the National Association of Secondary-School Principals. Trump argues that "lockstep" classrooms-30 or so children in one room no matter what the subject-stifle the spirit of inquiry and waste teacher resources...
...Trump Plan" envisions students spending roughly equal thirds of their time in large classes where they listen to lectures, small seminars where they freely exchange ideas in bull-session fashion, and study rooms equipped to let them follow the dictates of curiosity. Parts of the plan are being tried this year in more than 1,000 schools, but only one school so far is fully Trumped-up. It is Ridgewood High School in Norridge, Ill., which opened last year, and by last week could hardly keep up with admiring visitors from all over the world...
Though near Chicago, Norridge (pop. 15,000) is not a rich suburb. Instead it is a middle-income town that three years ago, as a result of growth, decided to build its first high school. It hired Eugene R. Howard, 37, who had studied under Trump at the University of Illinois, to be superintendent, and set him free to build the school. Howard supervised the construction of the $2,000,000 school as though Trump were looking over his shoulder. Main features...