Ninety million persons read the comics daily, twice as many as turn to the editorial page, and half of these readers are described as “highly educated” in a report titled “The Funnies, an American Idiom,” published by the Free Press of Glencoe, New York.
The Louisville Courier-Journal is reported to have headlined a new method for combatting the dropout problem as follows: “Bourbon Aids Dropouts.” The translation: Bourbon County had voted funds to assist in the prevention of dropouts.
American and Canadian tobacco companies will curtail and eventually stop advertising in college newspapers and magazines and in football programs. Several large American companies are considering a self regulating code that would ban athletes from being featured in cigarette ads.
Boston University and Yeshiva University in New York are sending teacher candidates into socially and culturally dis advantaged areas for preservice experience. Typically, the be ginning teacher has had his preparation in a “good” school in middle or upper-class suburban communities, where he does not receive the training necessary to adapt successfully to the problems of the culturally deprived community.
Team teaching is being greatly expanded in New York City this year. Operated last year as an experiment for 900 pupils in four schools, it will be enlarged this year to serve 7,500 elementary pupils in forty-one schools. Last year’s pilot project resulted in improved quality of work and better discipline and attendance. Many parents have asked that their children be included in the expanded program.