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over the country are wrestling with the problem of school integration. How to achieve a racial balance of its students with the smallest amount of disruption to its adult community. The Richmond Unified School District is undergoing the gamut of these emotional problems torn by strife just a

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few months ago, the district is once again trying to pull itself together. Division and multiplication are very many of you are interested. There is one it's gonna make sense to them. That will help them to see

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that mathematics is a language. It talks in sentences and that they can make up the sentences. That's what they're doing. They're making up the sentences now, if a child rights one incorrectly, I pass it over for a few minutes and then go back to it and

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asked him if he'd like to check over all his sentences to be sure that they say what um, they want them to say. For instance, Now listen to this sentence four plus two equals 10. Mhm. Was that a sentence? Was it a true sentence? No 4-plus

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2 is not equal to 10. You're wrong. You're not telling him it's right or wrong. You're not giving him a test and checking him and saying Five or 10 years from now, we will meet just about half the number of volunteers when

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we have sitting here now because we give the Children dignity and I'm going to ask you to give the Children dignity. The operation of our open enrollment program. It seems to us is will succeed or fail on what happens in the classroom. In other words, if

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youngsters are having good experiences in school and are coming home enthuse about school and if eventually their achievement, their progress is going up, we know that both they and their parents will be pleased about this in deciding how we could best provide help for teachers. However,

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we decided to move in the direction of one utilizing our Richmond Schools volunteer program. In addition to this, and I think this is the most exciting part of what we're moving into now. We're deciding to follow the newly rediscovered educational technique of youth tutoring youth. We

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feel we have in our secondary schools, many fine youngsters who can serve as good models for elementary school students. The secondary school students are enrolled in a work experience program so they will be one making a contribution to the community to. They will be receiving credit

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towards graduation for their work and three, they'll be making a little pocket money to assist them. Also, there is a total of nearly 500 non paid volunteers involved in the program, which takes in 38 of the district's 46 schools. Velvet Davis, for Eyewitness News in Richmond