Word: grades
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...double life as a school teacher and an attorney. He is advocating better teachers, better schools, and better public relations for the school system, which, he claims, has suffered bad publicity from the school appointments fight and from inaccurate charges that the teaching is of a low grade. Gargiulo, however, declines to take a position on the school appointments issue--the hottest in the campaign...
...suggestion that better grade foods be served on a limited portion basis was adopted some years ago with unfortunate results: the CRIMSON ran an editorial saying, "The food may be better, but our boys are starving." So now the Kitchen serves students all they can put away...
Successful Failure. Robert LaFayette Cox has been on the run for the better part of his life. A couple of his slower-footed friends in the grade-school gang he ran with in Los Angeles wound up in reform school. When he was 14, he ran away from home, worked at odd jobs along the West Coast for a few months before he took a crack at education again in Washington's Walla Walla High School...
...Cordiner Report calls for the abandonment of the "Methuselah" system of granting pay increases on the basis of seniority and time-in grade, and substituting a scale that would offer increased rewards to the skilled, productive, and responsible. They suggest that these pay increases go into effect only with non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers, those whom the government feels have a large enough stake in the military to make it a career. The Plan would also bring the salaries of civilian technical employees of the military closer to the standards of private industry, and give recruits, especially those with...
...Brown and Editor Walter M. Mason hope that the Golden Rule Series will help curb juvenile delinquency by exposing pupils to their eleven themes. So far, at least, the children are meeting them halfway. In Cincinnati public schools, which bought sets of books for their fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, boys and girls are even reading the Modern McGuffey on their own time. The favorable reaction of one fifth-grade girl: "Things that are funny really are funny, and things that are serious really are serious...