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...escaped slave, Dunn was born in a log house in Salem. New Jersey. From early childhood, he showed a great interest in art, which he "first studied from nature." While in primary school, he was taught draftsmanship and coloring by an artist friend. After he graduated from grammar school, his father, a Delaware River fisherman sent him to the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia where he studied stone masonry. After this trade school, followed several years of training in a scattering of Philadelphia and Boston art schools. To finance this schooling. Dunn worked during the summer on farms and, during...
...British government decided that every child should get a free secondary education. Before that, parents paid the bill, and most children merely stayed on in elementary schools until they could legally drop out at 14. Now all children must go on to secondary school at eleven. Since too few grammar schools exist, the government has had to set up a rigid system of selection. But by last week, as the London exams fell due, some Britons were asking whether the system is really worth while...
...agree. Even the Labor Party, with its Socialistic love of the tidy plan for everything, had worried over the fact that "the three types of schools are bound to inherit the old traditions of class segregation . . . [with] some children resentfully concluding that they are inferior to [those] attending grammar schools." Last week the controversy boiled up anew when A. G. Hughes, chief inspector in the Education Officers' Department of the London County Council, published a book with some severe words for the whole tripartite idea...
...very doubtful," said he, "whether on the basis of tests we ought ever to dare to decide, at the age of ten, whether an intelligent boy with practical aptitude is destined to become an academic scientist via a grammar school or a practical engineer via a secondary technical school ... Is it right to segregate . . . dull and bright, bookish-minded and practical-minded pupils . . . during the impressionable and formative period of adolescence? ... Is it right to determine the type of education so early without reference to the changes of interest that so often develop during adolescence...
...reading class is, of course, only one of the ways the Bureau helps students. At the beginning of the year it offers short refresher courses in trigonometry and mathematics and reviews of grammar for those entering the intermediate language courses such as French C and Spanish C. This fall for the first time it gave a six-meeting review in English grammar...