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Show Experts Call for "Orderly Reform" in High Schools A new report on education says American high school have become "social aging vats" in which students spend too much time at academic work and not enough learning to cope with the world outside. It recommends gradual shifts to classroom days of only two to four hours, freeing students to spend more time at such pracitcal pursuits as observing community government and helping to run their own schools. "Both as an institution and as a social concept, the American high school will remain the keystone of this nation's educational system," sys-tem," says the 142-page report prepared for the U.S. Office of Education. "However, it requires orderly reform." As it is now, the report said, high schools "have become social 'aging vats' that have isolated adolescents and delayed their opportunity to learn adult roles, work habits and skills." The report was prepared by a panel of academicians, researchers, resear-chers, school superintendents and students. |