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...recent years -schools have not been able to improve appreciably the performance of children from poor families. He asked Congress to set up a clearinghouse for research, the National Institute of Education. Its first job: to study how to improve compensatory education for the poor. In the same vein, he endorsed the Office of Education's "right to read" program, announced last September, to improve literacy by upgrading research and developing methods of teaching reading skills found to be inadequate among many students. He also asked for a network of experimental centers to study the education of prekindergarten children...
Ralphie got to Odyssey House from a hospital, where he had been seriously ill with hepatitis, contracted from a dirty needle he used to mainline heroin by injecting it into a vein in his arm. He is probably the youngest addict to surface for treatment in a terrifying wave of heroin use among youth, which has caught up teen-agers and even preadolescent children from city ghettos to fashionable suburbs, from New York ?where the problem is still most severe ?to the West Coast. One 17-year-old at Odyssey House knew Walter Vandermeer, 12, who died...
...Elizabeth Connell readily conceded that the Pill has some harmful side effects. The side effects are unpredictable in some women. Dr. Connell urged that the Pill never be prescribed for women who already show danger signals. She listed these as persistent headaches, swelling of the legs, vein tenderness and chest pain. One midnight not long ago, she said, a relative called her and described some of these symptoms. Dr. Connell (mother of six who refuses to say whether or not she takes the Pill herself) answered forthrightly: "If you ever take the Pill again...
...somewhat less facetious vein-but then who knows?-University of Michigan Anthropologists Stanley M. Garn and Walter D. Block examine another area of human eating habits in the current issue of the American Anthropologist journal. Excerpts...
...points, however, are well worth noting: that educational experts like Bruner (and now Jones) are concerned not so much with the education of the young as with the improvement of the schools, not so much with instructing children as with manipulating them. Much more intriguing in this vein are Dennison's accounts of how "freed" children develop organic and highly structured codes of order and morality; how they come to respect and depend upon caring adults as natural authorities, as elders; and how they exercise "positively curative" effects on one another, and "teach" one another with amazing efficiency. Such accounts...