Word: braden
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...education major" is doomed in California. In what Thomas W. Braden, president of the state board of education, calls a deathblow to "educationese," the state is drastically upgrading its teacher certification requirements. Ultimately, California will turn down all applicants whose sole or chief training is in the methodology of teaching. Instead, it will demand degrees in academic subjects, stressing substance over technique...
...sweeping is the change, says Braden, that if used to gauge California's current teachers, the new standards would disqualify 20% of high school teachers, 75% of junior college instructors, and 90% of elementary school teachers. "Professional education" is no longer an acceptable major. Would-be administrators will have to major in academic fields, from science to humanities. New teachers must minor or major in those fields, although they may also take degrees in nonacademic subjects such as home economics or industrial art. All must have a working knowledge of a foreign language...
This homely little parable, which I take from "The Decline and Fall of Spruille Braden," might possibly hold some lessons for President Kennedy. So might the policy of Franklin Roosevelt, who tried to break Charles de Gaulle in 1943 and failed ignominiously...
...violated the very essence of that policy." Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd said the U.S. "should invoke the Monroe Doctrine to proclaim a total embargo" on Communist military shipments to Cuba. Old Latin America Hand Spruille Braden, onetime Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, called for a U.S. military invasion of Cuba in the name of the Monroe Doctrine...
Died. Frank Wilson Braden. 76. cigar-puffing circus press agent, a walking, talking thesaurus of big-top ballyhoo to whom clowns were not clowns but rather "red-nosed, chalk-faced worshipers of the bluebird of happiness." who variously trumpeted the thrills of the Gentry. Sells-Floto, Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey, and Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers circuses for half a century; of pneumonia; in Providence...