Word: aliquippa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-five years ago, in the midst of the depression, two Pennsylvania towns, Ambridge and Aliquippa, tried one of the first serious experiments in applying new ideas about the school year. Both towns were operating under the pressure of necessity--they did not have sufficient funds to handle the school-age population using conventional methods...
...Ambridge and Aliquippa experiment, known as the four-quarter plan, the year is divided into quarters, and vacations are distributed equally among four terms. Three-quarters of the student body is always in school...
...difficulty was not the program itself--educationally it "worked well," according to Dr. L. M. Wilson, superintendent of schools in Aliquippa at the time. But parental opposition to the staggered vacations and to summer work was overwhelming. Wilson explained that the school-board had "promised" to return to the old program when sufficient money was available, but strong community pressure was an important factor...
...Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia, proposed that the entire Virginia public school system should be put on a four-quarter program much like that which had been tried with little success in Aliquippa, Ambridge, and Fort Worth. The plan, which had met with great parental disapproval, was shelved when the segregation crisis occurred, and there is little prospect that it will be revived. Despite its failure, the Virginia proposal represents one of the first serious moves by a state system toward the full year school, and is memorable for that reason alone...
...management for a settlement. United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, who had just appealed for "some negotiating statesmanship." immediately ordered the wildcatters back to work. But the short walkouts at major mills such as U.S. Steel's Fairless works and Jones & Laughlin's plant at Aliquippa, Pa. cut holiday week output to about 80% capacity...