Model Vermont high school plan blends small schools with local life
Royce Pitkin's model for Vermont secondary education envisions compact campuses and student integration into community life. The plan argues for student choice, individualized instruction, and learning through work experiences while addressing environmental concerns and shifting local economies. It cites Bennington's Mt Anthony program as a local touchstone for alternatives to traditional junior high schooling.
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Vermont
Royce S. Pitkin
Goddard
Plainfield
State Education Department
Bennington
Mt. Anthony Union High
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Lack of Funds End Learning by Doing Projects in Area Schools
William W. Steel warned the Bennington Rotary Club that a three year Title III learning by doing program for Arlington to Pownal elementary schools may end this year without local school board funding. He showed students building globes and other hands on items to illustrate the program’s value, noting current costs could be cut from 34000 to 10000 with savings while the effort could be continued by teachers using scrap materials to rival catalog prices.
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Bennington County
William W. Steel
Steel
Arlington
Pownal
Bennington
Aiken Says Nixon to Nominate James Oakes Judge
Senator George D. Aiken said President Nixon will nominate James Oakes of Guilford to a vacant federal judgeship after ABA clearance and FBI background checks. The move would fill the late Ernest Gibson seat and avoid two Burlington judges from one town.
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Washington
UPI
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Nixon
Vermont
James Oakes
Winston Prouty
Oakes
Aiken
American Bar Association
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Deane C. Davis
John Dinse
Burlington
Dinse
Davis
Bernard Leddy
Guilford
Senate
Ernest Gibson
GOP
Variable Cloudiness and Snow Flurries Forecast
Weather brief notes cloudy today with highs in the 30s and a chance of snow flurries. Sunday outlook remains generally fair but cold with continuing winter conditions across the region.
U.S. Sues Florida Power and Light Over Biscayne Bay Pollution
The Justice Department filed its first federal pollution suit to halt discharges of hot water harming Biscayne Bay marine life near Nixon's vacation home. It targets Florida Power and Light Co. with four counts under the Rivers and Harbors Act, seeks a preliminary injunction, a halt to a proposed canal, and a plan to eliminate environmental damage from existing plants and planned nuclear reactors.
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Washington
UPI
Justice Department
Florida
Biscayne Bay
Nixon
John N. Mitchell
Florida Power and Light Co
U.S. District Court
Miami
Interior
Walter J. Hickel
Biscayne National Monument
Nixon Administration
Chicago
New York-New Jersey
Johnson Administration
U.S
Walter Riechel Jr
Lands
Hickel
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
Bay
Card Sound
Biscayne Bay National Monument
Columbia Sit In Follows Abbie Hoffman Address
Several hundred Columbia University students marched into the Uris Business School lobby for a peaceful sit-in after a rally in Low Library Plaza led by Abbie Hoffman. Hoffman urged “spring house cleaning” and urged using chemistry, while students pressed for bail and defense funds for the Panther 21 case defendants.
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Columbia
Abbie Hoffman
New York
UPI
Columbia University
Uris Business School
Hoffman
Chicago
Low Library Plaza
Senate Approves Lower Voting Age
The Senate approved legislation to lower the voting age to 18 and extend the Voting Rights Act provisions for five more years, despite opposition from the Nixon Administration and Southern senators. The measure would reach 11 million voters aged 18 to 21 in federal, state, and local elections, with House-Senate conferees to reconcile differences. The bill retains the Justice Department preclearance and federal registrars provision, while the House version differs on certain protections.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Senate
House
Strom Thurmond
S.C
James B. Allen
Ala
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Robert C. Byrd
W.va
James O. Eastland
Miss
Allen J. Ellender
Sam J. Ervin Jr
N.C
Spessard L. Holland
Fla
Ernest F. Hollings
John J. Sparkman
John C. Stennis
Herman E. Talmadge
James C. Eastland
D-Miss
Emanuel Celler
D-N Y
Conference Committee
Mike Mansfield
D-Ala
Justice Department
District of Columbia
Mississippi
Louisiana
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Virginia
North Carolina
Hugh Scott
Hart
Congress
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Allen Wald
Philip A. Hart
D-Mich
YMCA
Southwestern
Memorial Park
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