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...Mass always follows class," sighed Hawaii Visitors Bureau Manager Charles Braden. And though mass has gone, lemming-like, down to the beach at Waikiki, class is slowly but in increasing numbers beginning to push on past Oahu to the other, lusher and less hokey islands. In 1955 there were only 815 hotel rooms available on outer or so-called Neighbor Islands (v. more than 8,000 in Waikiki alone); last year there were 1,776 with more abuilding...
GEORGE BALANCHINE HARRY A. BATTEN HARRY BELAFONTE EZRA TAFT BENSON EDGAR BERGEN MILTON BERLE EUGENE R. BLACK EUGENE CARSON BLAKE ROGER BLOUGH RICHARD BOONE SPRUILLE BRADEN OMAR N. BRADLEY JOHN W. BRICKER CHARLES H. BROWER HERBERT BROWNELL JR. DAVE BRUBECK DON BUDGE MARY I. BUNTING ARLEIGH A. BURKE LEO BURNETT AUGUST A. BUSCH JR. JAMES F. BYRNES
...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...
...What we want," says Board President Braden, "is teachers who are educated in the whole sense, people with the initial experience of thorough knowledge of some field. Most education majors are not really educated. They have never really delved into a subject as far as they could." Such talk has won Braden solid support from the state legislature, and fierce opposition "from the great education complex. Their feelings are hurt." As well they might be: thousands of California public school people are being told in effect that they are not good enough...
California's reform fits the conservative principles of the state's self-styled education "reformer," Max Rafferty, the back-to-basics new superintendent of public instruction, but he had nothing to do with bringing it about. It is mainly the long-planned work of Tom Braden, 45, a wartime OSS-CIA man who went on to become an English professor at Dartmouth, his alma mater, and is now editor-publisher of the Blade-Tribune in Oceanside. Rafferty rooters recently flooded Sacramento in a vain effort to stop Braden's reappointment to the state board of education, apparently...