Word: classroom
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Inside the Feb. 4 issue, there were more devices to attract the "family" reader--cartoons, a picture page, a "Current Events Classroom," a "Scrapbook" column which included Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie," recipes, and advice on how to play bridge...
...National Observer's attention-getting features are not uniformly wonderful either. Its cartoons are contently unfunny. The "Current Events Classroom" reduces issues to terms that are overly simplistic; it is easy enough to picture a four-year-old reading some stunning revelation--say, that atom bombs produce fallout--and exclaiming "Oh, my doodness!" But it is hard to imagine anyone much older learning anything in the "Classroom...
...provide massive help for U.S. education. In a program much like last year's, he proposed to spend $5.7 billion over five years for buildings, scholarships and raising teachers' salaries. Parts of the program are already going through: the House has passed a bill for college-classroom construction; the Senate has passed a similar bill that authorizes 212,500 scholarships as well (the two versions must now be compromised). What the President wants to add is aid for grade and high schools. He proposed spending $2.1 billion over three years for building schools and raising teachers' salaries...
...House, by a lopsided vote of 319 to 79, passed and sent to the Senate an education bill to provide $1.5 billion in aid to colleges over the next five years. The money ($900 million in grants, $600 million in loans) would be used for construction of classroom buildings, libraries, laboratories, etc. President Kennedy had wanted much more. Though he had all but given up on his request for $2.3 billion for secondary school construction and teachers' salaries, after last year's battle over whether parochial schools could be included, he vainly hoped for $750 million to raise...
...following article is reprinted from the January issue of CURRENT, a digest periodical. The article appeared first in HARPER'S, under the title "The Wasted Classroom." Mr. Glazer was a co-author of The Lonely Crowd...