Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four States, W.Va., mothers of about 60 white pupils at the Annabelle grade school kept their children home in protest against the admission of 13 Negroes, said they would demand the dismissal of Principal Lloyd Seccuro. ¶ In Hutchins, Texas, four Negro pupils unsuccessfully tried to register at the "white" Linfield elementary school, learned the state would maintain a ban on desegregation for at least another year...
...Washington, the Internal Revenue Service awarded Teacher Anna Steen, 42, a rare commendation for her "outstanding contribution toward the successful admin istration of the federal tax laws." At local Banneker Junior High School, Teacher Steen, showing her ninth-grade pupils how to deal with tax forms, went after Internal Revenue teaching aids, soon sold the tax collectors on a large-scale program of teaching tax know-how to schoolchildren across the nation. Result: more than 23,000 schools used the service's materials in tax lessons last year; this year, 7,000 more schools will follow suit, save...
Maryland's rural counties have done nothing yet to end segregation, but Baltimore city officials say they will end segregation in all of the city's 198 grade and high schools this month...
...lethargy of state capitals, has tackled the problem on a statewide basis. The state has asked permission to file a brief next month as a friend of the Supreme Court. Tennessee's brief is expected to suggest that schoolchildren be integrated gradually, beginning with the first grade and moving up through the grades as the years pass. Said State Solicitor General Allison B. Humphreys: "The question [of segregation] was settled by decision last May. We see no point in further arguing that issue." Meanwhile, Tennessee schools will stay segregated for this semester, at least...
...lowest percentage-3.9%-of illiterates), and those of its citizens who want only a practical education are either drained off to Iowa State College in Ames, or simply stay down on the farm. S.U.I, is thoroughly committed to the liberal arts; students who cannot make the grade are gently but firmly dropped...