Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps they may be overcome in a small private school in New York City. Walden was one of the schools which nearly a half-century ago pioneered John Dewey's ideas of progressive education, a movement which has swept through practically all American high schools. The general success of their earlier ventures left the question of the future purpose of these schools...
...Skiing has always been the big sport, and is bigger than ever today. It is the only sport which the school goes all the way in supporting. The small size of the student body (96 boys) and the deliberate curbing of a competitive "old school" spirit dictate a rather half-hearted athletic showing. The school has always had financial problems, and still has no real gymnasium, almost no equipment, and inadequate playing fields...
...outdoor work program is extended by the household jobs, in which the student has a half-hour job, to be performed each day, such as waiting on table, kitchen work, or cleaning classrooms...
...offers does, however, possess some drawbacks. For the student body is in many respects a very homogeneous group. Almost all pupils come from "comfortable" if not wealthy homes and thus only a small segment of the economic spectrum is represented. There are hardly any Negro students (less than a half-dozen per class) in the group, although there is a high proportion of Jewish and Catholic pupils; but in a tolerant and religiously easy-going village like Scarsdale, religious friction within the school is negligible. Politically too, the range of allegiances is fairly middle-of-the roadish...
...result of such an overburdened schedule of trivia, over half of U.S. high schools have no foreign language requirement, no science requirement, and no mathematics requirement for graduation. There are no available facilities for advanced study in English literature. Where 75 per cent of our high schools offer typing courses, only 40 per cent have school newspapers appearing as regularly as once a month--and some of those are mimeographed. Advertising, shorthand, auto shop, and a half-term of empirical economics teaching you how to avoid being gypped when you purchase an automobile--these are the trade and social courses...