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...matters are often useless. What the Army needs is courage and resourcefulness-both, said he, plain products of a good education. He further shocked the delegation when he told them that the college-graduate soldier did not have as good self-discipline as the soldier of high-school and grade-school level...
...public-school teachers of America. It is also a sensitive portrayal of a youngster (Douglas Croft) who honestly adores his pretty, understanding teacher (Claudette Colbert). Based on Philo Higley's and Philip Dunning's 1935 Broadway play, the picture will remind many a U.S. grownup of his grade-school days...
First stumbling block for Boston's 180 grade-school economics teachers was the lack of texts. Joe Lee wanted a subjective course revolving around the pupil's personal place in the world of money, not an objective course of simplified jargon and theory. In charge of the project was small, mild Eleanore Elizabeth Hubbard, professor of history at Boston Teachers College, a grade-school teacher herself for 26 years. Miss Hubbard solved the problem by holding weekly conferences with teachers, exchanging ideas for classroom models, graphs, cartoons, games...
...group included more than 1,000 grade-school pupils, averaging nine or ten years, and more than 250 high-school students, with a median age of 15. Jews ranked easily best, followed by children of old U. S. stock originally from New England or the Middle West...
...investigator blew up three fallacies: 1) that smart children tend to be frail; 2) that girls are smarter than boys; 3) that smart children are "onesided." Medical and anthropometric tests showed that Terman's group was healthier, and, in general, physiologically superior to the average. In the grade-school section the ratio of bright boys to bright girls was 6-to-5, in the high-school section 2-to-1. As a group the bright kids showed versatility in information and school activity...