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TUESDAY. JULY 12, I960
Need for Return to Fundamentals
In San Francisco Schools Stressed
San Francisco - (UPD
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bate-"3-R or progressive
" . , .
ichools?" - is being renewed
In San Francisco with fresh
vigor.
It was sparked by a com-1
mmee oi eigm uu.vi., "T
lessors who made a 10-month
itudy of the city's public
schools at the request of the
board of education.
Their verdict: Back to fun
damentals. So-called progressive edu
cation was bitterly criticized
In the 72-page report issued
by the professors, four of
whom were from the Univer
sity of California and four
from Stanford university.
"We believe that the pur
pose of education is to inform
the mind and develop the in
telligence," they wrote.
Standard Said Lowered
"Recent pedagogical theory,
however, has tended to make
'education for life in a democ-
racy' the primary purpose of
the public schools, interpret
ing and applying that phrase
in a sense profoundly hostile
to excellence in education
The result has been to skimp
academic subjects, to lower
standards, and to confuse and
retard the whole educational
process."
The professors found that
San Francisco schools do not
compare favorably with the
national average. They rec
ommended drastic changes in
organization and teaching of
courses, in training of teach
ers and especially in the "at
mosphere of lassitude, bore
dom and even resentment (in
the classrooms) that must be
overcome U genuine educa
tion is to take place."
They urged San Francisco
ichools to:
- Increase emphasis on the
"3-Rs" by requiring that two
thirds of the elementary
school day be devoted to read
ing, writing and arithmetic in
stead of the present one-half
minimum.
-Require foreign languages
in the sixth grade and ulti
mately in the third so that by
the time a student finishes
high school he has a fair
knowledge of two foreign
languages.
Four Years ol English '
-Require four years of
English instead of three in
high school; double high
school science laboratory per
iods; toughen physics, chem
istry and biology courses.
- Include more ' essay ques
tions, fewer true-false and
multiple choice questions on
examinations.
- Reduce physical education
from the present state require
ment of five periods a week
to two or three times a week.
-Emphasize homework be
ginning with higher grades of
elementary school and increas
ing with each grade.
- Reduce such practices as
"sharing, building Indian vil
lages and visiting the post of
fice and the fire station."
- Schedule rallies, games,
community affairs, Christmas
pageants and similar extra
curricular activities outside
academic class hours.
-Abolish automatic promo
tions; distinguish between di
plomas and mere certificates
of attendance.
- Raise teacher salary sched
ules at the top and gear them
Beer Drinking
Snake Missing
Miami, Fla. -(UPD- Rodney
Charlie Herr's beer drinking
indigo snake, is missing and
Herr has offered $150 for its
return.
Herr thinks Rodney is
unique. He should, with a
name like Rodney. Because
Rodney is a female.
Herr said Rodney sticks out
her tongue in answer to her
name and he didn't want to
change it "because I don't
want to confuse her."
Herr says he has used Rod'
ney for a companion, conver
sation piece and an auto orna
ment. Rodney also can balance
herself across six beer cans,
Herr said. She has startled
Herr's guests by posing as an
ashtray then suddenly uncoil
ing.
"I even tried to get her a
polio shot," Herr said, "but I
was told she couldn't catch
polio."
Vale Area Blaze
Still Uncontrolled
Vale IUPI) - A fire that had
. burned some 11,500 acres of
brush and some timber was
reported raging out of control
68 miles from here late Mon
day.
The blaze, Just north of Jun
tura, started about 2 p.m.
Monday and was fanned by
strong winds. The fire cov
ered an area seven by three
miles.
Cause of the fir was unknown.
.to merit increases; make It
possible for teachers to attain
I a salary comparable to that of
i administrators,
' Reduc. workload
- Reduce the classroom size
and workload of teachers, free
ing them from clerical, admin
istrative and other duties not
immediately related to teach
.
ing.
- Provide qualifying exam
inations for teachers that test
knowledge and understand
ing of subject matter rather
than knowledge of education
al theory; fire incompetent
teachers.
San Francisco school Super
intendent Harold Spears call
ed the survey "a provocative
and stimulating" report but
voiced reservations. He en
dorsed several of its recom
mendations, including one
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PLANE WITHDRAWAL DEMANDED Leftist demonstra
tors staged a protest demanding the withdrawal of U.S.
U2 planes from Japan, at Atsugl Naval Air Station at
. that qualified college-educated
housewives be hired to help
English teachers correct
papers.
Spears calculated that the
annual cost of putting Into ef
fect all of the professors' rec
ommendations would be ap
proximately $2.5 million.
Spears said proposals that
the great bulk of the student
body take a heavily academic
course with few elcctives
would leave San Francisco
schools resembling specialized
European schools.
Ill Effects Seen .
This, he said, would have
two 111 effects:
- Reduced enrollments In
the fields of business educa
tion, industrial arts, home ec
onomics, music and art would
present the problem of dis
missal of teachers in such
ears
fields or transferring them
into academic fields.
- San Francisco 'ould be
practically the only school
system requiring a set aca
demic course for graduation,
and students transferring Into
it would be handicapped In
meeting such requirements.
The school official took Is
sue with a recommendation
that science courses be elim
inated In the first three grades
and that social science cours
es be eliminated in the first
two, with more reading and
arithmetic substituted.
Spears replied, "Rending
and writing cannot be taught
abstractly, they are dependent
upon content. The loss of this
subject content in the primary
grades in either science or so
cial studies would hinder
greatly the instruction."
Atsugi, Japan. Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fuji
yama has revealed that all American U2 planes stationed
in Japan have been withdrawn. (UPI Telephoto)
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FBI Agents Smash
Bombing Plot at
Little Rock School
Little Rock, Ark. - (ITO
The FBI smashed what It
called a "sinister plot" to
blow up a Negro college
dormitory with 40 sticks of
dynamite early today, two
hours before a bomb blasted
a hole In the side of a public
school warehouse.
A spokesman for the Fill
In Washington said quick ac
tion by FBI agents "may
have saved some lives." Hut
Dr. R. E. Arnold, dean of in
struction at Philander Smith
College, which owned the
dormitory, said no students
were in the building. The
FBI arrested three men.
Connection Doubted
The bomb at the warehouse
blew a 15 by 6 foot hole in
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Ihe wall. It injured nobody.
J. J, Casper, special agent In
charge of the Little Rock Fill
office, wouldn't speculate as
to whether the dormitory and
warehouse Incidents were con
nected. But another source doubted
they were. The warehouse Is
10 blocks from Central High
school, Ihe best known Inte
gration battleground In the
country.
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Lloyd Parks, 30, whom, 1
Casper said, they caught
touching a match to a candlo j
Hint would have touched off
a lusu lending to 40 slicks
of dynamite In a black box.
FBI agents arrested Hugh
Lynn Smith, 33, Hn.isett, Ark.,
at his home.
Miller, Parks and Smith
were the first persons arrest
ed under anti-halo bombing
provisions of the new civil
rights law.
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