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...target age was from three to five, the ideal target group, the culturally deprived. Inundated by enthusiastic mail and ecstatic reviews, Sesame Street became an indisputable hit. But does a "switched-on" classroom educate or merely entertain? To measure the results of the series, the Children's Television Workshop commissioned a nationwide study by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J. The report card has just come in, and Sesame Street has earned straight...
There are more disturbing aspects of the proliferating group sessions. Among some 200 Stanford University undergraduates exposed to a wide variety of personal growth workshop experiences, the overall "casualty rate" -those who suffered psychological impairment-was 8%. Perhaps even more significant was the discovery that a so-called charismatic leader, or trainer, within the movement produced a casualty rate of 14%. Psychiatrist Louis A. Gottschalk of the University of California, after participating in one encounter group of eleven, diagnosed "one borderline acute psychotic withdrawal reaction" and "two severe emotional breakdowns with acute anxiety" within that group. Irving D. Yalom, chairman...
There is other evidence of student apathy. Since last month, the University of Detroit has been offering a workshop, led by practicing politicians of both parties, to teach realistic campaign techniques; only 69 of the university's almost 9,000 students enrolled. Faculties have been no more responsive. The Universities National Anti-War Fund, which once spoke about raising millions of dollars for peace candidates by getting teachers to contribute a single day's pay, has collected only...
...glowing chapter, he reports that his ideal is already close to reality in about half the primary schools in England, where orthodoxy is giving way to highly informal "open" classrooms. At first glance, they look like chaotic kindergartens: children move around talking; rows of desks are replaced by "workshop areas" arranged throughout the room and in nearby corridors...
...Charles Eames Office in Venice, California (L.A.'s bohemian district), not only reaffirms his fascination with ideas but also reveals the style with which he goes about his problem solving. The Office in itself is a transformation-from an old garage to a furniture factory, film studio, design workshop, and think tank. Yet outside, one could not tell this white-washed building from its former incarnation, "we haven't had a sign on the door for twenty-five years now," said Eames. Today it simply has the address...