Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem of elementary schooling for faculty children. Many professors, dissatisfied with the crowded Cambridge schools, feel obligated to send their children to private schools from kindergarten on up, a severe financial drain on already-constricted budgets. A number of universities have met this problem by setting up experimental grade schools as part of their Schools of Education...
Never a scholar, Hague was expelled from school before finishing the sixth grade, went to work at the Erie roundhouse. He came to the attention of Ned Kenny, tavern operator and a factional leader in Jersey City's Second Ward. In 1896 Kenny was involved in a fight with a rival saloonkeeper-politician, and wanted somebody to put up for Second Ward constable. He picked young Frank Hague, gave him $80 and told him to "use your head." Hague did, won the election, went on from there...
...from high school-that the schools were in trouble, I felt that I must do what I could to help." As Larsen had already found out, the schools were indeed in trouble. In 1949, 250,000 pupils were on split classroom shifts, and half of all those entering ninth grade in New York State alone were dropping out before finishing high school. The nation was short 450,000 classrooms and 150,000 elementary-school teachers...
Since that cold Nov. 18 when she first showed up in her seventh-grade classroom wearing a pair of corduroy slacks, Shirley Richardson, 14, of Thompsonville, Conn., has been leading a lonely life. Principal Ernest White told her that slacks were against the rule, and that unless she returned to skirts, she would have to sit in a room by herself. Shirley's parents protested that as a result of an operation four years ago, Shirley's legs needed special protection against the cold. The principal asked to see a doctor's affidavit, but never...
...administering the injections privately). Some states, e.g., Illinois and Colorado, have decided to freeze out commercial vac cine for the present, distribute their entire allotment free. Others are increasing their allotment of commercial vaccine. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which provided the free vaccine for first-and second-grade school children in 1955, has stopped distributing vaccine, although some of its vaccine is still being used. The Government's $30 million vaccine grant to the states is available only until Feb. 15, but Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom says he will ask Congress to extend...