Word: uses
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...interviews with hundreds of teachers and administrators, Chall found that few referred to research in defending their use of the meaning method. "Their language," she says, "was more often characteristic of religion and politics, than of science and learning...
Most American schools, an 90 to 95 per cent of the reading texts for beginning readers, use the "meaning method"--emphasizing the content of written words in an effort to associate reading with the child's daily life...
Educators have spent decades debating the relative value of meaning methods and decoding methods, which include phonic and linguistic techniques. The decision to use content emphasis was made early in the century on the basis of very primitive studies...
Gerald A. Berlin, president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, remarked yesterday that to induct demonstrators is "clearly to use the selective service process as a form of punishment." Berlin deplored what he called Hershey's recommendation that the draft boards "take justice into their own hands...
Apart from what he is saying, only this glitter and his expressive use of his hands give him away for being a poet. His exterior seems particularly unexotic if one has come fresh from hearing him read poems about bestiality ("The Sheep Child"), voyeurism and sexual assault ("The Fiend"), the bombing of civilians ("The Firebombing"), and adultery ("Adultery"). "Nothing is excluded from the poetic conscioueness," Dickey proclaims. "Anything that happens to your mind is grist for your mill...