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New Book Asks for Trouble
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — "To-morrow's Illiterates" is the title of a just-published book that should shake and rattle the roof trees of all homes that shelter little children.
During the recent American Rocket Society meeting here, Krieger passed on these additional observations on the Soviet space program:
Krieger, a researcher in the physics department of the Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Calif., has specialized in compiling and evaluating for the Air Force all available material on the Soviet space program. His studies of Communist technical papers and newspapers enabled him to forecast the first Soviet satellite shot in 1957.
—More powerful missiles, possibly capable of manned lunar flight:
"Current Soviet tests in the Pacific may indicate whether they have them. But their claims are usually borne out eventually, especially when Khrushchev makes them."
NEW YORK — (UFI) — Dr. F. J. Krieger has been described as "an authority on the Russians in his field insofar as any one can be an authority on the Russians." His field is astronautics.
Last April, he predicted the Soviets would put a man into orbit "within the next month." They did a few days later.
—Space failures: "They cover up their apparent failures. Lunik, which we know about, took only nine photographs of the other side of the moon. They published 30; apparently varied reproductions of the nine."
This book was published by Little, Brown and Co., for the Council on Basic Education. It tells what hit U.S. education and why. It names names, invites combat. Every parent-teachers association in the United States should make "Tomorrow's Illiterates" required reading for all members.
Space Expert Tells Of Soviet Efforts
—Who runs the manned space program: "Khrushchev is boss, according to (cosmonaut Yuri) Gagarin, who says Vostock is Khrushchev's baby."
—Space exploration by machines instead of man: "Russian literature is replete with examples of these ideas, their caterpillar tractor in particular. But it hasn't gained priority although the Russians appear to be working on it."
- Access to technical information: "A Soviet scientist can't even get American technical papers on developments in his own field without Communist party approval and proper security clearance."
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IT IS LIKELY, thereafter, that teachers would cease speaking to parents and that parents would cease speaking to teachers.
This book deals with the teaching of reading in the lower grades. It finds guilty the U.S. educational system in general and the early grade teachers individually on serious charges. The system and the teachers stand charged with converting the little kids who pass through first, second and third grades into delts who cannot read. The book asserts that there has been:
As for the early grade teachers, themselves, they simply are carrying on in the tradition imposed upon them. Some selected quotations from "Tomorrow's Illiterates" will convey some of its ideas:
"A NATIONAL failure in reading instruction which we (the authors) see as the single major cause of the deterioration of our educational system."
- "IT IS CLEAR that we not only have a national reading problem of
Three authors hold responsible for this situation a variety of individuals and institutions. They include, the U.S. Office of Education, Teachers Colleges, James B. Conant, former President of Harvard University, textbook publishers whose interests are vested in no change, the system of progressive education. John Dewey and his satellite saints of pedagogy, and others.
appalling seriousness but also that it is completely unnecessary.
- "It is entirely due to the methods of reading instruction generally followed in our public schools.
- "The (teaching) system, the texts, the theory are, in official school-of-education circles, today about what they were in 1925.
- Dr. Trace said fourth grade Russian children use books with a vocabulary of about 10,000 words.
Fourth grade Americans have basal readers with vocabularies of fewer than 1,800 words.
- "The system has spread over the country (taking the hinterlands in the 1930s). It has produced a disastrous retardation not only in reading but also of education in general.
- "Tomorrow's Illiterates" is a 50-megaton bomb blast at U.S. educational practices. It should arouse great controversy.
- "Considerably more than half, probably 75 per cent, of our young people do not read as they could. At least 35 per cent of them are very seriously retarded."
THIS BOOK is one of a salvo of complaints being fired at the teaching methods that send young people into college unable to read at a grade school or high school standard. There has been the inevitable comparison with the Soviet Union system. The New York Times reported in the last week of October on a study made by Dr. Arthur S. Trace Jr., of the John Carroll University, Cleveland, O.
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