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TUESDAY- JULY 12, 1960 Summer Nebraskan Page 3 Top Students Need "There is nothing so un equal as the equal treatment of unequals." Julius Humann, director of special education for Lincoln public schools, was speaking on the problems of educating the gifted. Each Student Individual He was saying that each studeril is an individual; spe cial coaching should be pro vided for the academically gifted child just as it is in music, art and athletics so he, too, may develop his po tential. Dr. Marshall Hiskey, direc tor of the University of Ne braska educational psycho logical clinic, agreed. Even within the group known as gifted, what a teacher does with each Indi how well educated he will be, he said. Some educators suggest that exceptional children are best off in the classroom sit uation where a number of grades are in one room. The faster students can eavesdrop on the recitation of the older ones; the slower students might benefit from the dis cussion of the lower grades. Ungraded, But Accelerated In the ungraded primary, children are kept in groups moving most nearly at their own rate, Humann said. This enables some pupils to com plete in three years the work ordinarily covered in four, he ; notea. Dr. Hiskey suggested, how ever, that, "by the time the more adept student pro gressed to the next grade he would probably know that material. Then the enrich ment of his program would have to be even grater." Time: Teacher's Problem "Of cours, a big problem is that the teachers have so little time," he said. "Each child has different strengths," Dr. Hiskey con tinued. "The big question is whether the teacher is cre ative, imaginative and has enough energy to create the right program for gifted in dividuals." "The framework for these programs comes about from guidance, counseling and testing," he said. 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"No more than five per cent of the gifted are receiving the special training they need.' "Educators are very con cerned with conversation about natural resources," said a Montana school teacher. "I have often felt that the resource in which the most erosion and waste takes place is that of human mind and spirit from failure to utilize opportunities," she said. "The misuse and disuse of human resources is a uni versal problem," she em phasized. "Providing oppor-i tunities for the gifted child and challenging his abilities is the way to combat wasted human resources." Who Are Gifted Who are included in this group of academically gifted students and what is being done for them. Readers Digest Gives $500 For Journalism Classes The Readers Digest Foun dation has granted the Uni versity of Nebraska School of Journalism $500 for the de velopment of magazine and depth reporting courses. In making the grant, Ster HE 2-3645 town & campus E3P3W Convenient Locations "K STREET" 12th and K. St. CLEANING and SKIRT . . AT St .48th end Von Dorn 27 HE 5-4313 Clifton Hiskey Boys and girls among the top five to ten per cent, those with an I, Q. of 125 or more and those with a pronounced talent are the gifted and should be given special edu cation, according to Dr. Paul Woodring, consultant for the Fund for the Advancement of Education. Humann' suggested the fol lowing criteria by which a child is judged gifted: Native ability as meas ured by standardized achieve ment tests. Achievement as meas ured by standardized achieve ment tests in language arts. Attitudes and accomplish ments as evaluated by teach ers. Consideration of physical, mental and social maturity. According to Dr. Woodring, there are two general types of special programs : one aimed at acceleration, which gets the gifted through school at an earlier than average age; the other aimed at en richment, which offers the highfy endowed child a cur riculum expanded in scope and depth. The latter may be peppered with extra foreign language study, advanced mathematics and science courses. "I'm leery about letting my child skip grades," a parent may argue. Woodring pointed out that educators today are so aware ling W. Fisher, director of public relations and execu tive director of tne tounaa tion. said it was made "with t our best wishes for your con tinuing and increasing suc cess in this valuable work." The grant was based on plans by the School of Jour nalism to go into the depth reporting area and on the work of a magazine article class taught by Neale Copple in the fall semester of Professor Copple will teach the school's first depth re porting class this fall. In the magazine article writing class the students wrote 32 articles, of which approximately 27 have been published or will be pub lished. The publications us ing the students' work ranged from newspaper Sunday mag azine sections to scientific journals. Trailers and Religion Students sold articles to magazines dealing in such subjects as trailers, farming and ranching, rodeos, con servation, music, religion and education. Jan Nisker of Nor folk set the distance record. Her story about an Ethiopian student attending the Univer sity was used by the Point Four magazine for Ethiopia. It was published both m Eng lish and in Ethiopian. The students provided ail the articles for the February issue of the Nebraska Alum nus magazine. One Used Twice An article written by Don ette Kevs of Lincoln for the Alumnus was reprinted by the Nebraska State Dental Journal. Miss Keys' article dealt with the cleft palate team which works through the Dental College. Commenting on the award Dr. William E. Hall, director of the School of Journalism, said, "This gift from Read er's Digest is another tangi ble indication that the School is becoming nationally known and respected. CONTEMPORARY Greeting Cards large selection GOLDEHEIOD 215 NORTH 14 Special Care of the importance of Wealthy social adjustment and so sen sitive about past mistakes in this area that acceleration probably will not unless the child can handle It emotion ally and physically. "Enrichment appears to pose fewer adjustment prob lems than acceleration," he added. "Enrichment can be ef fected in any classroom," he continued. This method spares fast learners the bore dom of drill sessions by as signing them research pro jects keyed to their individ ual abilities. Acceleration, enrichment and an ungraded primary program are all used in the Lincoln public school system, according to Humann. "In a program for grades four through six, pupils with high ability in language arts are in special classes for one fourth of the school day," Humann said. College in High School Beginning in high school, students talented in mathe matics, foreign languages and chemistray may enroll in classes for credit at the Uni versity. Humann recalled that one student completed 22 hours for University credit while in high school. Ability grouping is also practiced in some junior high schools. For Summer Reading The Summer reading lists are compiled by the Love Memorial Library staff from the books available in the library. Summer library hours are 7:50 a.m. to 9:20 p.m. Mon day through through Thurs day and 7:50 a.m. to 4:50 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The library is not open Sun days during the Summer Ses sions. Mayer, Frederick. The oGals of Education. There are two ways to look upon the aims of education. One is to be concerned mainly with the problems of the schoolroom, to define edu cation in a narrow man ner. The other way, which Dr. Mayer exemplifies, is to Uok upon education "as the process of relatedness," as the man's most impor tant undertaking in his at tempt to fulfill his potenti alities and to overcome the idols of the past. Sevareid, Eric, editor. Can didates 1960. The editor and and nine other Washington correspondents have writ ten short, readable biog raphies of the leading con tenders for the presidential nomination, erapha sizing both the candidate's politi cal background and his personal qualifications. Se vareid' has an excellent in troductory article on the present political scene. De Vries, Peter. Tents of ! Wickedness. This book con tinues the portrait of the RUSS' SNACK BAR WELCOMES YOV Homemade Rolls 1227 VACATION TRIPS FAMILY PICNICS SUNDAY DRIVES V You still have half the summer left to enjoy them WE KNOW YOU'RE READY BUT IS YOUR CAR? let our mechanics look over your car and make adjustments that mean smooth motoring ahead. GEORGE KNAU3 MOBIL SERVICE A second concept among special educators is that ev eryone has a gift or talent. Working on the development of this idea is the Nebraska Human Resources Research Foundation (NHRRF). At the recommendation of nursery school teachers and ministers, children who pos sess leadership potential are selected to participate in the NHRRF project. "We want to help youngsters improve their human relations," said Dr. Don Clifton, assistant di rector. Student Counselors "University students act as counselors for the children and provide new experiences for them so they become bet ter leaders and learn about others," he said. "We want them to develop sympathy and be able to ob serve and interpret other peo ple's behavior; to meet a va riety of people, particularly types to whom they have not been previously exposed. "We don't treat them as quiz kids," Dr. Clifton em phasized. "Our focus is on consideration for other peo ple rather than on self-improvement." Emphasis on Creating A third area mentioned in connection with gifted stu dents is that of creativity. Lincoln school children who read widely, who have a rich background of experi ence and a vivid imagination may find an outlet in various forms of creative expression, Humann suggested. This includes writing orig inal poetry and prose as well as preparing school pro grams and leading or moder ating class discussions. There are outlets for creat ive expression in art, music, dancing, athletics and dra matic skills as well, accord ing to Humann. The editors of "School and Society" say that educators everywhere are becoming more widely aware of the need for dealing specially with the gifted child. Lincoln is not lagging behind in realizing and catering to this awareness, Humann supported. manners and mores of life in Decency, Connecticut, gun in Comfort Me With Apples. A series of parod ies of contemporary writ ers such as Marquand, Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemmingway. Ewen, David. The Complete Book of 20th Century Mu sic. A revised edition of the book which was originally published in 1952 is now available. It is the first book in any language to analyze today's musical compositions in all the major forms. The leading composers and their im portant works are included in this one-volume work. Griffith, Richard. The Movies. This beautiful pic turebook tells the story of the world of Hollywood and its effect on America from the pre-nickelodeon days to the present. The book be gins with a portrait of Edi son and ends with a scene from the movie "Marty." Mr. Griffith is curator of the Museum of Modern Art film library; Mr. May er, the co-author, is a vet eran in the movie indus try. Shapiro, Karl. In Defense of Ignorance. The first collec tion of Karl Shapiro's prose essays. Some of the essays appear for the first time in print. Karl Shapiro, Pultiz er Prize winning poet, re evaluates here such figures as Eliot, Pound, Yeats, Whitman and D. H. Law rence. Soft Drinks Cakes R St. ! HE 2-7960 Virtanen Hails Bernard As Scientific Pioneer Claude Bernard and His Place in the History of Ideas by Reino Virtanen, University of Nebraska Press. The human record often re veals that many men have not received adequate recog nition of their contribution to man's sum of knowledge until long after the event. There was the classic case, for example, of New ton's contribution to calculus. It was not until many years later that the world of mathe matics recognized that a con tribution equal to Newton's had been made by Leibnit, Similarly, Justice John Mar shall of the U.S. Supreme Court has received the plaud its of history as the man who fashioned the separation of powers between the feder al government and the states. Yet we now know that Just ice Joseph Story was often responsible for putting Mar shall's ideas into acceptable judicial decisions. In a slightly different con text, Professor Virtanen of the University of Nebraska Department of Romance Lan guages points out another in stance in the field of science where only the passage of time revealed the stature of a great investigator. The author, in his intro duction, makes the case :n this manner: "Claude Bernard's career the public has found in the life of his younger contemporary, Louis Pas teur. His physiological dis coveries, if no less important, had few of the striking, even made Pasteur the subject of the best-selling books and OOO&COC-SOO&DOOOOOOCOPOpjf Lincoln see favorite f for fall! L'AIGLON Modeling Thursday, July 14 11:15 to 1:45 TEAROOM FIFTH I TT DAYTIME DRESSES THIRD Shop doily 9:30 to 4:30, Thursdays 10 t 0:10. Community Savings Stamps. BEAUTY SALON SPECIAL o o ivith this coupon 20 Discount on K3K3AY TLTSDAY Permanents $10 & c, vvkssay Phone HE 2-3444 1209 M Street popular films. There is noth ing to match the interest and suspense of Pasteur's work on rabies in Bernard's re search on the glycogenic function of the liver. The revelation of the body's in ternal environment was hard ly as dramatic as the unveil ing of the microscopic world of bacteriology. But Pas teur's sparkling exploits in applied science are counter-balanced by the contribu tions of Bernard to the prin ciples of investigation, and in their own way his achieve ments were quite as signifi cant." In this compact and read able study, Mr. Virtanen has undertaken to explore and de fine Bernard's influence in natural science, philosophy, and literature; to clarify the philosophical bearing of his work; and to suggest what in his writings remains vital and pertinent for twentieth century thought. Mr. Virtanen has with great skill given as a full-dimension appraisal of Ber nard. At the same time he has illuminated personal and societal obstacles with which Bernard had to deal. N.H.B. 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