Word: hewes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly anyone else. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom, in poor health and discouraged over the failure of his school-construction program to make headway in Congress, has been wanting to resign for months. And President Eisenhower's intention to name Arthur Flemming as his new HEW Secretary was one of Washington's worst-kept secrets...
...reduce the shortage of college and university teachers, HEW wanted funds to provide 1,000 fellowships for graduate study the first year and 1,500 for each of the three years after that. Direct federal grants, matched by each institution, of up to $125,000 a year could go to campuses for salaries and equipment...
...HEW also suggested matching grants to help local schools recruit more mathematics science teachers, raise salaries and buy equipment, and finally to help the states strengthen the science and mathematics programs in their departments of education. Among the reasons for this request: "Studies indicate that only one out of three high school graduates has had a year of chemistry, only one out of four has taken a year of physics. There is a current shortage of more than 8,000 high school science teachers and yet-of the 5,000 graduates prepared to teach science last year-2,000 went...
...Since the percentage of high school students taking a foreign language dropped from 50% in 1928 to 20% in 1955. HEW suggested that the U.S. help the states set up language training centers, and also a series of summer institutes for language teachers...
...memorandum to the President, Secretary Marion Folsom suggested that a $79 million grant be given the National Science Foundation, which now carries on many of the kinds of programs HEW hopes to foster. Thus, HEW itself would be left with only $145 million the first year to give U.S. education the boost it so badly needs...