Teachers Learn From Pupils In Private School
North Hollywood California July 15 A private Oakwood school program lets third graders teach teachers during a summer session at Occidental College. The school emphasizes phonetics and dictionary training over sight reading, teaching letter sounds and spelling rules. Oakwood, started in 1950 by actor Robert Ryan and wife Jessica, serves 65 students from average to gifted.
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North Hollywood
Calif
Oakwood School
Los Angeles Area
Occidental College
Oakwood
Marie Spottswood
Robert Ryan
Jessica
Timothy
Cheyney
Lisa
Mary Davidson
Oakwood School Affirms Gifted Child Plan
Oakwood limits classes to 10 and relies on tuition and fundraisers for support. Families are not rich, but well off, with fathers in professions such as medicine law and architecture. The school, started in an abandoned synagogue, stresses early gifted identification and intensive first grade attention to prevent future delinquency.
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Oakwoo
Oakwood
Police Experiment In KC Pays Off
Kansas City police chief Bernard Brannon says a week long experiment of maximum police protection reduced crime by 28 percent. Officers worked 12 hour shifts with reserve night duty and some used personal cars. The effort was voluntary with no overtime pay.
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Kansas City
Bernard Brannon
Brannon
Parents Raise Money For French Course In Akron
In Akron Ohio parents funded a trial French course at Fairlawn School. The school board initially objected citing philosophical concerns about financing education. Fairlawn PTA plans to raise about 4200 dollars yearly and officials will study expanding language studies to all elementary schools.
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Akron
Ohio
Fairlawn School
Robert Mohler
Mohler
Fairlawn Pta
Albert J. Dillehay
Fair Lawn to Offer Foreign Language Throughout Grades
School officials say Fair Lawn Elementary will be the first in Ohio to provide a foreign language program across all grade levels, signaling a major curricular expansion and early foreign language exposure for students.
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Fairlawn
Ohio
Area Bases Receive Funds
A Senate appropriations bill approved last night designates 10,021,000 for Kansas military construction and 7,509,000 for Missouri. The package totals 1,824,000,000, versus 1,581,590,000 in the House version, with conference to resolve differences. Kansas funds cover Fort Leavenworth, Fort Riley, McConnell Air Force Base, Forbes AFB, and Schilling AFB. Missouri funds cover Fort Leonard Wood, Richards-Gebaur AFB, Whiteman AFB, and the Aero Chart Information Center in St. Louis.
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Kansas
Missouri
House
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Ft. Biiley
MecConnell Afb
Forbes Afb
Schilling Afb
Ft. Leonard Wood
Richards-Gebaur Afb
Whiteman Afb
Aero Chart Information Center
St. Louis
Invite Ex Governors To Wildlife Event In Ellinwood Kansas
Invitations to dedicate the 19 000 acre Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Preserve in Barton County will be sent to all Kansas governors who have served since 1939. The dedication is set for October 13 and bids will go to Payne Rathern Frank Carlson Andrew.
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Ellinwood
Kan
Cheyenne Bottoms
Barton County
Kansas
Payne Rathern
Frank Carlson
Andrew
Planning group seeks Seaton as principal speaker
At a planning committee meeting in Ellinwood yesterday Director Dave Leahy of the state Forestry, Fish and Game Commission said Secretary of the Interior Fred Seaton is being sought as the principal speaker.
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Ellinwood
Dave Leahy
State Forestry, Fish and Game Commission
Secretary of the Interior
Fred Seaton
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