Public Schools: How Parents Feel

The U.S. public is "far ahead of present-day educators" in willingness to accept innovation in schools, says Pollster George Gallup in a new survey of parental opinion. If parents had their way, all classrooms would already be using teaching machines and programmed textbooks for "fact" learning, team teachers would be focusing on the great, neglected field of training kids in how to think and analyze, children would progress by ability groups rather than grades, advanced students would spend nearly half of their time studying alone. And school administrators would be hotly devising even newer methods of instruction.

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