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...While fusty critics of public education might worry about the perilous state of high-school Latin, physics and mathematics, Teachers College, Columbia University, was all aglow over another trend. Driver education, reported T.C. happily, is now "the fastest-growing program in the country." Today four out of ten high schools teach it, making students "safer members of traffic society...
Having a month ago passed a resolution endorsing segregation in the public schools, the school board of Louisiana's Bossier Parish (just across the Red River from Shreveport) took another step toward the preservation of its most cherished tradition. Last week it banned from all nine high-school libraries TIME, LIFE and Look, accused the magazines of "waging a systematic campaign to prejudice and inflame the American people against the South by presenting in their columns biased and distorted views on the institution of segregation of races in our schools." To make doubly sure that no pupil would ever...
Henceforth, said the board, there will be no kindergartens, no more junior-high or high-school basketball, football, debating, dramatics or choral singing. Janitor services will be reduced, and the high-school day will be cut. Whether meant as a shocker or not, the announcement brought a chorus of protests. Cried one angry father: "They've decided to get us where it hurts most, by making our kids suffer." But other citizens found reason to examine their consciences. Twice they had had the opportunity to pass an amendment that would give more than $1,000,000 to the schools...
...survey of U.S. reading habits, the American Institute of Public Opinion reported some sorry figures: 57% of the nation's high-school graduates and 26% of its college graduates have not read a single book in the past year. Asked to name the authors of twelve famous works- Leaves of Grass, Gulliver's Travels, The Origin of Species, etc.-9% of the college graduates could not give a single name. 39% could not name more than three...
...Having studied the various aid-to-education plans of its sister corporations, B. F. Goodrich Co. concocted a recipe of its own. Each year it will spend some $300,000 to pay for 1) seven four-year scholarships for bright high-school graduates selected by the National Merit Scholarship Foundation, 2) 50% of the tuition and laboratory fees of any employee taking a course related to his job, and 3) matching gifts of up to $500 that employees may make to any school. Any campus (public or private) with a Goodrich scholar will get a gift equal to the student...