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...citizens enjoy for getting to know the people among whom they find themselves." ¶ The Veterans Administration reported that the Korean G.I. bill, just five years old last week, has so far given nearly 2,000,000 out of 5,100,000 veterans of the Korean war either a high-school or college education or on-the-job training. Today, added the VA, veterans account for 25% of the male student population. ¶ For the first time since 1910, said the U.S. Office of Education, the percentage of high-school students taking science and mathematics rose last fall. Biology (tenth...
Local Anesthetic. In Budapest, the newspaper People's Freedom carried a want ad: "Girl, 23, with glasses, high-school graduate, living in country, would like to meet and marry serious man who does not like to make acquaintances through...
Thus it was no surprise when Judge Taylor last year issued an order against interference with the high-school integration program in Clinton. At first he had denied Negro petitions for admission to the all-white school, by declaring the legality of "separate but equal" facilities for Negroes. His reversal-with the stiff injunction against meddling-came on the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court's desegregation decision, which ruled out the old separate but equal precedent. And when violence and rioting followed in Clinton (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.), it was Little Bob Taylor who sternly slapped...
...Past. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the M.I.T. program is the most ambitious ever undertaken to modernize high-school physical science courses. Its steering committee includes such names as Nobel Prizewinners Edward Purcell and I. I. (for Isidor Isaac) Rabi, M.I.T.'s President James Killian, Atomic Scientist Vannevar Bush and Moviemaker Frank Capra; its working staff already numbers more than 100. Under Director Jerrold Zacharias, head of M.I.T.'s nuclear science laboratory, the staff will work at least five years on the project, after that may turn its attention to high-school chemistry...
...reason high-school physics courses are often so bad, says Zacharias, is that their textbooks are largely based on physics as it was known 50 years ago. Though new knowledge is added in revised editions, it is merely tacked onto basic material that is still out of date. The books overemphasize practical applications, concentrate on macrophysics, such as Archimedes' principle, to the neglect of microphysics, which has become all-important with increased knowledge of the atom. By fall, Zacharias hopes to have ready the first part of an experimental textbook that will concentrate on basic laws and include...