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Evening star., 1961-11-26

Question: After being away
from school for 20 years, I
strongly desire to return to fur
ther my education and become
a teacher. I am terrified by the
college entrance exam. 1 am
afraid it'll be my downfall.
After all, 1 left high school in
1941. Can you prescribe a
course of action for someone
determined to succeed? I want
to teach first-grade children.
My own four daughters have
given me good experience in
teaching. How do 1 go about
it? I just don't know how to
begin.
Answer: A desire to be a
teacher is just the beginning:
it is not enough. You'll have to
60 it the hard way. First, make
up your mind, you'll need four
years of college education. Or,
if you live in a community
where the trimester plan is in
effect, it'll take you two years
and nine months. So far so
good. But this will mean going
full time. You'd probably need
a full time maid to take care
of your youngsters. At that,
you'd be better off than trying
to get your degree in slow
stages through night courses.
I've seen too many well inten-
toned students fall by the
wayside before they complete
their work this way. But it can
be done.
You should take the elemen-
tary education program, since
you want to teach on the first
grade level. There are many
good teachers colleges in your
State; your only trouble will be
to find one within committing
distance, since 1 expect you
plan to live at home. You say
you are terrified at the thought
of taking the college entrance
exam. Sure, that can be tough
after a 20 year wait.
I'd advise a refresher course,
either in a local college or as
part of your high school adult
education program. Also, talk
to the admissions officer at the
college you plan to attend. He'll
advise you as to the type Of
exam required - if any. Twen-
ty years is a long time. But not
too long for one who is ambi-
Evening star., 1961-11-26
Commerce Photo
Contest Opens

A Department of Commerce
photo contest will open tomor-
row in the Commerce Depart
ment's lobby. The show will
run through December 6.
The picture editors of TIL e
Star, the Washington Post, the
Daily News and the Afro
American will present "a rib
bons in four categories, and a
best -in-the show award.
Evening star., 1961-11-26
BY LESLIE ]. MASON
Professor Of Education, University
of Southern California


Fifty years ago, one teacher
taught all eight grades in a
school that sometimes had up
wards of so children.
Today, in an increasing
number Of schools, four to six
teachers simultaneously con-
centrate their ability and
energy on the progress of a
specific group of 100 to $50
children within a large school
This is team teaching, and
many experts regard it as a
challenging solution to the
perplexing problem of how to
provide adequate attention to
the individual child 'in the So
called huge school.
Each Has Speciality
What is team teaching and
how does it work?
In a sense, it is a school
within-a-school. A teaching
team, with a designated leader,
is selected for each large group
of students. One member of
the team teaches arithmetic,
one teaches reading, one
teaches social studies, one
teaches music and art. Each
teacher is chosen as a specialist
in his field.
The students may move from
one team teacher to another
in claSs-size groups. Sometimes
two or more groups meet in
a larger room or auditorium
for lecturesNor moving picture
presentations which can just
as we'll be heard or seen by
all at one time.
Conferences are held regu-
larly. The team members take
time to consider not only their
progress in teaching subject
matter but, more important,
what is being taught by means
of the subject matter.
BY comparing notes in their
conferences, they become aware
of the exceptional abilities and
problems of individual students,
and are able to quickly identify
and provide help for laggards.
Evening star., 1961-11-26

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov.
25 (AP).-Yale University has
changed it's traditional fresh
man mathematics program in
response to an influx of stu
dents with better high school
training in the subject.
Prof. Charles E. Rickart,
chairman of Yale's mathe-
matics department, said today
the new courses are designed
to meet the needs of these
students.
The traditional math courses
for freshmen - analytical ge-
ometry and calculus - were
scrapped in September, Mr..
Rickart said. They were re-
Evening star., 1961-11-26
CITIZENS
MEETINGS

Meeting announcements
must be in the hands of the
CtUic Calendar editor by noon
Thursday of each UeeE to
insure publication in the
column on Sunday. Those
received too late lUiH not be
used separately unless there
is some special neUS Signiti-
canoe attached to them.
A development proposal for
the Georgetown waterfront be-
tween M street and the Po-
tomac River will be considered
tomorrow by the Georgetown
Citizens Association.
The group will meet at 8 pm.
in the parish hall of Old St.
Johns Church, Potomac and o
streets. Georgetown.
Other citizens groups meet
ing this week at 8 pm. unless
otherwise specified are:
TOMORROW
Friendship Citizens Association
Columbia Federal Savings and Loar
Association, 1901 Wisconsin ave. W
Allied Civic Group-7:45 pm, Parh
and Planning Commission Auditorium
S1S7 Georgia ave, Silver Spring Md
DeanwOOd Civic OciatiOn-Caryel
School, 45th and Lee SITS. ne.
AssOciation-Ft Davis Library, Ala
Mid-City Citizens Association
Board Room, National Savings anc
Trust Building. 18th st. and New
York ave. NV.
Oldest Inhabitants, Inc.-Odd Eel
legs Hall, 9th and T SITS. NV.
TUESDAY
Civic Betterment Association-Nallt
Elementary School. 50th and c SITS. e
NaylOr Good Hope Citizens ASsocia'
tion-Naylor Gardens Community Hall
3036 Naylor rd Sc.
lie DrOit Park Civic Association
Dickerson's home, 4l0 T ST. NV.
WEDNESDAY
Oakview Citizens :3C
p.m., Brookview School, Corliss st.
Citizens Transit Improvement As
sOciatiOn-Washingto Post Community
Room, 1915 L st. NV.
Evening star., 1961-11-26
PTA EVENTS
CALENDAR

Meeting announcements
must be in the hands of the
PTA Calendar editor BY
Wednesday of each 1Deek to
insure publication in the
column on Sunday. Notice
must include street address OF
meetings, as tUell as meeting
time and tuH name and To-
cation Of organization.
Representatives of educa-
tional television, commercial
television and the viewing pub
lie will speak on "Television
Programming for Children" to-
morrow at the 8 pm. meeting
of the Parent Teacher Associa-
ton of Charles Barrett School
in Alexandria.
Guest speakers will be Mrs.
Mary Jane Phillips, educational
co-ordinator for GWETA; Dan
w. Shields, National Associa-
ton of Broadcasters, and Gene
Thompson, vice president of
American Research Burea
which measures audience reac-
ton to TV programming.
Other P-TA groups scheduled
to meet this week, at 8 pm.
unless otherwise noted, are:
TOMORROW
ketcham-l5th and u SITS. Sc.
Tifereth Israel CONGREGATIONAL School
18th and Juniper SITS. NV. at $3.50
pm.
Bunker Hill-l4th st, and Michigan
ave. ne.
Garfield-25th st. and Alabama ave.
sc.
TakomA-Piney Branch I'd. and
Dahlia st. NV,
Whittier-5th and Sheridan SITS. NV
WEDNESDAY
LOgan-3rd and G SIS. ne.
THURSDAY
Sharpe Health School Dinner
honoring Australian Ambassador and
Lady Beale at pm. at 1900 18th
st. NV.
FRIDAY
BOwen-3rd and K SITS. s.w.
Evening star., 1961-11-26

toned in New York in the Air
Force.
Joseph would like to follow
his brothers footsteps and go
into the Air Force. He is hoping
to obtain an appointment to
the Air Force Academy.
The award will be presented
at a ceremony at the high
school at 9 am. Thursday.
Evening star., 1961-11-26
MASON ON EDUCATION
Platoon Of Teachers
"A Challenging PIon

The math teacher may re-
mark that James is falling
down in his homework assign
ments. The English teacher
may say, He is late with a re-
port in my class. too" The
physical education teacher may
state that he has become overly
aggressive on the playground.
All of this behavior could
stem from the Illustration that
James has through his failure
to live up to an older brother
or sister in making grades.
Having located the cause of
his behavior, they can now help
James change his attitude
and achieve more success.
Need Not Cost More
Newspapers are put out, cars
and airplanes are built by
teams - not by one individual,
however skilled, working alone
The team method need not
cost the taxpayer any more.
The teacher-student ratio can
remain about the same. The
difference is in organization.
1t brings freshness, variety,
teaching skills and col CEN
trated effort.
The teaching team need not
end with teachers. Soon coun-
selors and parents become
members, too.
Not long ago I gave a talk to
members of a junior high
teaching team on study skills
and how they can be developed
The audience included not
only the teachers of the team
but the superintendent of
schools. the principal, the
counSellors and even the stu
dents and their parents.
Now, there's a REAL teach
ing team!
Mail your questions to DR..
Mason in care Of The EUe-
ming Star. While he cannot
dnSUer individually. he Dill
discuss questions OF general
interest in his column.
Tuesdoy Ion Feature Posel: Should
doddy poy for As?
Evening star., 1961-11-26
SCIENCE
CALENDAR

This information is sup
piled by the Joint Committee
on Press Relations of the
District of Columbia Council
on Engineering and Archi-
tectural Societies and the
Washington Academy of Sci
enceS.J
Institute Of Radio Engineers wash
ington Section, Professional Group on
Electron Devices)-6 pm. dinner, Oc-
cioental Restaurant l4l1 Pennsyl-
scum Of Natural history, 10th St. a and
Micro-electronics," DR.. w. ". Gaert-
ner' Columbia Broadcasting System
Laboratories.
American Society of Civil Engineers
National Capital SectiOn)-Noon
sts, NV; Civil Ensineering in Missile
and SPACE Programs" Mai. Gen. James
B. Lambert. USA.
American Society for MicrobioloEy
Washington BTaneh)-7 pm. dinner
meeting. Officers Club, Walter Reed
NJ NY NAUTICAL NEHLEIa Ob-D ATEOL I'd
ave. NV; .'Environmental Sources Of
Mycotic Infections" Dr.. Chester W
Emmons, National Institute Of Infec-
tous Diseases. Members and guests
only.
American Statistical Associs tior
washington Statistical Societyl-s
ernment, George Washington Uni
versity, 21St and @ SITS. NV; Eco.
nomic Forecasting-Short Term anc
Long Term" Julius Shiskin, Bureau OF
the Census, and Charles L. Schultz
Wednesday
National Science Foundation Col,
loauim-l0:30 am. meeting. Nationa
Science Foundation, 1851 Consutu.
ton ave. NV, Some implications o
Progress in the Atmospheric Sciences,
Dr. Thomas F.. Malone, president o.
the American Meteorologfcal Society
American Welding Society wash.
Wsshington Gas Lisht Co On AuditoTium HeSitna
lth and H SITS. NV; Bring Youl
Welding Problems" panel OF welding
experts will answer questions on vari
Gus problems in the field from tht
audience.
Geological Society Of Washington
) pm. meeting. John Wesley PoWei
Auditorium, 2l70 Florida ave NV;
program featuring a film OF the Xii,
auea volcano eruptons in Hawaii IL
1889 and 1850. Various speakers vii
be presented.
Thursday
Washington Operations Research
Councils am. day-long meeting o.
War Gaming Symposium, Statler Hilton
Hotel. Rear Admiral T H. Moorer
director OF the long range objective
group Of the Office Of the Chief o
Naval Operations, will be among tn
speakers
Society Of American Forester
washington SectOin)-6:30 pm. din
ner meeting, YWCA, 18th and K SITS
NV; Public Domain Lands" John A
Carver, ir., Assistant Secretary Of tn
Interior for Public Land MANAGEMENT
Saturday
National Capital AstronOmers-s:1.
pm. meeting, Department of Com
merce Auditorium, l4th st. and Con
stitution ave. NV; The Most Interest
ing Star" James s. Pickering. Ameri
can Museum Hayden Planetarium
New York.
Evening star., 1961-11-26

The outhor, q Pulitzer Prize reporter,
is education editor of the North
Amerieon Newspaper Alliance. Ques-
tions Regarding education and CO.
reers may be addressed to him core
Of the The Evening Stor. A stomped,
self-oddressed return envelope must
oeeompony eoeh question.
tious. We need teachers. Good
luck.
Question: I read your answer
to a confused parent on grad
ing systems. I must say that I
am equally confused about the
system our school uses. 1t is
called a curved grading plan,
whatever that is. How can you
determine just what rank your
child maintains in his class
when you are told he is in the
upper two-fifths or two-thirds
or in the top 10 per cent of his
class? Why don't school teach
ers use the old percentage sys-
tenn, of 100. 80, 80, etc. Then at
least we knew what our chill
dren were doing. Just doesn't
make any sense to me. Can you
enlighten me and maybe some
other readers? What's all this
nonsense about grades, any
way? guess I'm old-faShioned.
Answer: I don't blame you
for being confused, but please
don't be upset. The schools are
putting in grading systems
that in the main are better
than the old-fashioned per-
centage or numerical grades
Actually, what does a grade
of IS really mean? If a student
is taking an easy" course
such as physical education OF
choir, it may mean one thing
but he is taking an honors
course in English or math, it's
something else again.
The curved grading works
this way: The children are
graded on the basis of what
they do in comparison with
the rest of the class. For ex-
ample, in a class of 80, the
top three students would be
in the upper 10 per cent; the
top IL would be in the upper
two-fifths, the top 20 would
be in the upper two-thirds
This is as fair a way of grad
ing as any other. But as ]
Evening star., 1961-11-26

WeMS-51O Kr.-s an. TO midnight; Saturday
lam. to / pm; Sunday 8 an. to midnight.
WINx-16Oo ke.-24-hour operation
WPlk-730 Ke.-Daylight oH.y.
WoMR-1o50 kr.-DsyIight rHly.
WUST-1120 kc.-Dsylight only.
WFAX-122o Ke.-Daylight only.
WWDC-1260 kc.-24-hauF operation.
WEEI-i3i0 Kr.-24-hour operation except
Monday midnight to an. Tuesday.
W0oK-1340 ke.-24-hour operation Monday
through Saturday; Sunday s an. to midnight.
WEAM-t3so Ke.-24-hOur operation except
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WD0N-is40 Ke.-DsyIight only.
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WPRW-1460 ke.-Dayight only.
WPGC-I5s0 Ke.-Dayllght eHly.
Evening star., 1961-11-26
Safety Talks

Inspector Dick Mansfield, di-
rector of The Stars School
Safety Program, will give his
cartoon safety chalk talks at
the following schools this week !:
Tomorrow - darlington Co-opera-
tive. Arlington, $3.50 am. Pre-school
Activities. Landover Hills, Nd, 100
pm.
Tuesdsy-Fairlingto Cooperative
Arlington, $3.50 am. Pre-School Ac-
tivities, Landover Hills. Md, 300 pm.
Wednesday-St. Bernadettes, Silver
Spring. p:15 and 10:45 am.
Thursday-Holy Redeemer, College
Park. a:l5 and lO:45 am.
Friday-st. Rita's. Alexandria, 9 &c
Am.
Evening star., 1961-11-26

John B. Laten discusses
current law enforcement
problems in the District.
1000, WMAL-Adlai Stevenson
Reports. Edward r. Murrow,
chief of the USIA, is guest.
1880, WMAL - Comment. A
discussion of automobile
drivers and their hidden
medical defects.
1880. WTOP - City Side.
Metropolitan Police Chief
Robert V. Murray.
Evening star., 1961-11-26
LATEST TV INFORMATION

Television programs for the week are carried in
TV Magazine with Sundays Star. Following is supple
mentary information todays programs received after
TV Magazine went to press.
$3.50, wMAL C7-Footban. Today's game will be
between Denver and Houston, cancelng the scheduled
contest between Oakland and Dallas.
Evening star., 1961-11-26
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HARL0TTE HALL ACADEMY
TEMPLE SCHOOL

ESDA, 794o Wis. Ave, OIL.
J CORNERS, 1905 WilIsion,
Intensive courses, ~ Gregg
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. t6) sisnoiyps.
Evening star., 1961-08-02
Peace Hope in Quiet Diplomacy

about direct negotiations
with the Tunisian govern
ment over the situation in
Bizerte, a rather encourag-
ing thing occurred in the
Soviet capital. It was an
nounced there that diploma
tic representatives of nine
African countries-TuniSia,
the United Arab Republic,
Ghana, Guinea, Morocco.
Sudan, Mali, the Somali
Republic and Ethiopia-were
received by Premier Khru-
Shchev for a discussion of
the TuniSian problem. Al
though he had a chance to
muddy the waters, the Soviet
Premier chose to avoid any
embarrassing move. Instead,
though expressing sympathy
with the Tunisians over their
losses at Bizerte, he told the
nine African representatives
that there was no need for
the Soviet Union to make
any broad statement on the
Bizerte problem since the
shooting had ceased and the
matter was under negotia-
ton.
The situation has not been
helped, on the other hand, by
the African nations which
are seeking in New York a
special session of the United
Nations General Assembly
for the purpose of giving
vent to their anti-French
feelings. This doesn't make
things easier for France,
where public opinion would
hardly sustain a government
that backed down in the face
of such tactics.
Particularly significant,
however, is the statement
made by the Tunisian repre-
sentative at the U. NJ, who
told a meeting of the Afro
Asian group Monday night in
New York that his govern
ment is ready to discuss a
time and place for negotia-
tions with France if France
comedies "the principle of
eventual evacuation" of BIZ
zerte. This would not seem to
be difficult for Paris to do,
since a pledge to that effect
has been already proclaimed
by the French government.
So the way is open to more
talk and more quiet diplo-
macy" over Tunisia as we'll as
Berlin.
(CopyriEht. 1861
Evening star., 1961-08-02
DAVID LAWRENCE

IN EUROPE. - Oddly
enough, whenever quiet
diplomacy" gets going, there
is more hope for peace than
from all the public state
mentS, speeches and prop
aganda exchanges put to-
gether.
Two episodes in the realm
Of quiet diplomacy" are at
tracing worldwide attention.
First, John McCloy went to
Moscow primarily to discuss,
on behalf of the United
States Government, the vague
and ponderous subject Of ar
rangements for more inter-
national conferences on dis
armament. But he was sud-
denly invited by Soviet Pre-
mier Khrushchev to visit him
at his Black Sea vacation
home, and seems to have
been warmly entertained. In
the midst of this, Mr.. McCloy
was given a personal message
for President Kennedy about
the Berlin crisis. The Soviet
ruler brushed aside his own
speeches and threats about
Berlin, and. in effect, ex-
claimed: why all the war
talk, anyhow"
Second, Adlai Stevenson.
United States Ambassador to
the United Nations, who hap
pened to be in Europe last
week on a rowing mission,
was invited by President de
Gaulle to come to Paris to
confer on the Bizerte issue.
Under instructions from the
Department OF State, for sew
eral days he discussed the
situation in TuniSia with the
French Foreign Minister,
Couve de Murville, one of the
ablest diplomats of the West.
On his return to the United
States yesterday Mr.. Ste
venson said that it should be
possible for France and
Tunisia Ito arrange for quick
talks and agreement to pull
back forces of both sides to
their pre-fight positions"
thus paving the way for a
speedy settlement of the
Bizerte dispute.
AS long as there is talk in
critical situations, there is al
ways hope, though a clear
ing Of the air isn't helped by
Evening star., 1961-08-02
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

American applicants for visa to Iron Curtain coun-
tries must give reason for going Trouble is guy with
enough to have reason wouldn't be going.
Agriculture Secretary Freeman farmers aren't
we'll off city folks think. In fact you null this
during traffic JAM you'll realize that city folks
aren't well off city folks think.
Jim Rowley becomes head of the Secret Service
outfit which protects the President from known
calamity except reelection
Defense Boss Mcnamara says atomic attack might
kill several tens Of millions" You know this Washington
arithmetic. Always give or take couple of million.
Pravda says Russias 2o-year plan inspires gloom
confusion and fear in the United States Well gloom and
fear aside, there is confusion about why it takes
Moscow 20 to remodel the rergerator that weren't
built during the five-year plans.
Evening star., 1961-08-02
Need to Avert Possible Big Defect
Affecting American PoIicYmokinq

plan. 1t only fears that when
the Red China issue is intro
duced into the debate ar
bitrary or unwise actions
might swiftly lead to the
loss of Nationalist China's
own seat.
Close students of U. N.
procedures emphasize the
point that in every case the
sponsors of U. N. resolutions
must court a very large num-
Der of uncommitted nations.
Bloc voting is increasingly
rare; the work must be done
nation by nation.
What the administration is
trying to prepare for is ex-
tensive diplomatic negotia-
tions preceding the introduc-
ton of a Red China resolu-
Evening star., 1961-08-02
DORIS FLEESON

The Kennedy administra-
ton is glad to emphasize its
support and friendship for
Nationalist China, but it is
not willing to suffer a humil-
iating defeat in the United
Nations on the China issue.
Hence. its effort to sell the
visiting Vice President from
Formosa on new strategy for
the U.N. session which opens
next month.
So far, there seems to be
little meeting of minds. The
official communique will en-
phasize solidarity, but it will
be a solidarity of aims rather
than a new program.
Both the United States and
the Soviet Union are in a
minority position in the U.N.,
due to the increase in U.N.
members from Asia and
Africa. The Soviets are worse
off in this respect than the
Western powers, but no par
ticular group of nations is
today sufficiently unified to
prevail on matters of general
interest.
The China question has
been shelved each year by
strenuous diplomatic efforts
on the part of the United
States with help from major
allies who at heart question
the wisdom of that course.
President Kennedy has been
told that this year the votes
for a continued moratorium
are simply not there and
that proceeding as if they
were would only invite a pub
lie drubbing.
The Nationalist Chinese
have replied with a threat to
use their veto powers in the
Security Council. 1t is being
urged upon them that such
a course would ALLEVIATE the
new nations, particularly
those from Africa.
The time might come, they
we're told, when they would
need the friendship of the
African nations in order to
protect their own interests
in the U. N. This idea was
apparently unacceptable as
carrying too broad a hint
that some kind of compro-
mise involving Red China
representation was in the
wind.
At this point, at least, the
administration has no such
Evening star., 1961-08-02
u. N. and the Red China Issue

ton. Since it has been told
that a purely negative po-
sition. cannot again succeed.
it needs a blueprint for its
actions and some prepared
positions to retreat to if
necessary.
This is where the Nation
alist Chinese scent danger.
From their point of view
they may be right. This does
not relieve the President
from the duty of trying to
avoid an American defeat.
1t is far from an ideal situ-
alton that the United States
now enjoys in the U. NJ, a
one-vote nation among &c..
many of which are inexperi-
enced and politically naive.
The administration can be
expected later to propose
changes in the organization
in the interests of greater ef-
ficiency and executive ca
pacity.