Education: Pioneers

This fall U.S. schools with ideas or money or both are sprouting innovations as bright as autumn foliage.

> Warren, Pa. (pop. 14,500) is overruling pedagogues who insist that five is the age to start school. In the first such community-wide experiment, Warren schools will enroll smart tots aged three years and eight months.

> Greenwich, Conn, has a new $1,000,000 elementary school with movable walls designed solely for team teaching. That method is paying off in Pittsburgh, biggest U.S. experimenter in the art, where team teaching will now involve more than 7,500 youngsters...

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