I find it ironic that "Grade School Goes Corporate," in which a school's curriculum squeezes science and social studies into only one period, is in the same issue in which historian Cullen Murphy compares America's fatal parochialism to that of the fall of Rome ["Lessons From the Fall"]. Whether succumbing to pressures related to No Child Left Behind or satisfying corporate interests, it's alarming to see schools basing their success rates on arbitrary test scores. Is the future of education in America to be based on producing clones for specialized employment or to nourish the intellect of our youth so that they may grow to be wise citizens?
BOB GOLDIE
San Francisco
Correction: Hebrew text in a photo caption accompanying "Israel's Political Storm" [May 14] should have been translated to read: Elections now.
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