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...Level. Melbourne High spurns "life adjustment" courses for its 1,500 students. It has no social studies. "They only weaken history and geography," says Brown. The school assembly is a noncom-pulsory, after-hours activity. Melbourne makes profitable use of team teaching, follows the bold "Trump Plan" schedule of large lecture classes 20% of the time, with the rest divided between seminars and individual research. Students even buy many textbooks because "state-provided textbooks are not adequate...
...displays of sociological prose ("Grieving is a sense of reaction with motor implications"), are assembled in this handy encyclopedia of death. Financed by the National Funeral Directors Association, the book may indeed make one of the more significant contributions to the U.S. death industry since the invention of Frederick & Trump's Corpse Cooler. It goes a long way toward reconciling its readers to the sentimental (and expensive) horrors of the usual U.S. funeral. The rest of the world, it seems, is not much better...
...disarmament in the face of fear, Aron stated the basic political difference over Algeria this way: "De Gaulle's point is that he cannot negotiate with the FLN as the free Algerian government, for that would recognize Algerian independence. But the FLN cannot stop fighting, because that is their trump card...
Spurred by the teacher shortage, educators are mulling revolutionary curriculums geared at last to individual differences. Proposals were laid out last year by Education Professor J. Lloyd Trump of the University of Illinois, head of a team financed by the Ford Foundation. The future high school, said the Trump report, will dispense with standard classes of 30 students meeting five days a week on inflexible schedules. For 40% of the time, large groups of 100 students or more will attend lectures and demon strations. Another 20% will be spent in small seminars of about a dozen students...
Factory or School? Run by "master" career teachers (earning $15,000 a year, Trump proposes) and assistants, this sort of schedule requires a different kind of school planning. Though acoustics are a problem (no really soundproof movable partition has been perfected), flexible walls can help turn the trick. One arresting example is Architect John Lyon Reid's new (1958) Mills High School in Millbrae, Calif. Though built to stand 100 years, Mills follows an industrial "loft plan" in which none of the interior walls is structural. By adjusting a few nuts and bolts, walls can be shifted overnight...