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...percentages went steadily down from college graduates (81%), through citizens with some high-school education (67%), to grade-school graduates...
...Economic status (upper fourth, 84%; lowest fourth, 53%) was even more indicative than education. Citizens with plenty of money but only grade-school education, voted 13% more heavily than those with a college diploma but low income...
Engaged. James Joseph Patterson, 21, West Point cadet, only son of New York Daily News Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson; and Dorothy Marie Clarke, 21, of Ossining, N.Y., his onetime grade-school flame; in Ossining...
...which shares a 1,200-mile border with Mexico, 160,000 Mexican-born residents, and an uncounted number of U.S. citizens of Mexican and Spanish blood Spanish would seem to be a necessity, but in 1940, Corpus Christi had to disregard the state law even to make Spanish a grade-school subject. A year later, the state legalized this action. Two years later, 1,125 Texas school districts were teaching Spanish to some 250,000 children...
Passionate protagonist of Texan bilingualism is Mexican-born, Texas-trained Edmundo E. Mireles, who runs Corpus Christi's grade-school Spanish education program. Linguist Mireles (he knows seven languages) spends his days teaching Spanish, his nights brushing up the high-school Spanish of other teachers who strive to keep one Spanish jump ahead of their pupils. Because Mireles says it is unnecessary to know much Spanish to teach a little, some pedagogues eye him askance. But he argues from results...