Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ourselves by the use of money." If democracy is to survive, children must study the elements of economics. He persuaded his fellow school committeemen to try his plan. Last February, in Boston's 42 intermediate schools, some 7,000 pupils began to learn the meaning of consumption (seventh grade), production (eighth), conservation, and industrial relations (ninth). A more advanced course for tenth-grade (second year high school) students will start next year...
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...
Last week's exhibition at the Boston school committee's Beacon Street building was a public show of classroom work done by the children. Notable was the ease with which moppets grasped economic and quasi-economic ideas, illustrated them with graphic charts and pictures. Examples: > An eighth-grade crayon drawing of an automobile, with tabs that pull out to illustrate the various farm products used in manufacturing a car. > Cartoon "movie" strips of manufacturing processes, from raw material to finished goods. > A play, The Loan Shark, demonstrating possibilities of fraud in loan transactions. > Home budgets worked...
...World War I, 25.3% of the first 1,500,000 U.S. citizens examined for the Army were illiterate. The average soldier had only half completed the seventh grade of grammar school. No figures were available last week on the number of illiterates in the draft, but the average soldier has finished his third year of high school...
...book contains something more than a wealth of anecdotes about W. C. Durant, William Knudsen, Henry Ford, the Dodge Brothers, the Fisher Brothers, many another automotive bigshot-something not generally understood or valued in the U.S., something that must be read mostly between the lines: the story of what Grade A business management means and can achieve. It is the inadvertent self-revelation of a resourceful organizing genius who is a really great manager, but not in Mr. Burnham's sense. The greatness of Sloan's achievement is that he took the vast rambling collection of companies which...