Word: interschool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, alert young fourth, fifth and sixth graders perched on the edges of their chairs and strained for the answers to such posers. Each studio was jammed with soprano cheering sections from competing schools. Teachers, who had coached their hopefuls for competition, watched nervously. The program was Quizdown, an interschool contest conducted on old-fashioned spelling-bee lines...
...Association for Childhood Education, which represents about 39,000 "progressive" educators, called Helen Bannerman's 46-year-old child's classic "an undesirable book. . . . These drawings create a distorted and ugly picture that becomes fixed in the white child's imagination." In Manhattan the Interschool Conference of Youthbuilder Clubs joined the Sambo-hunt because it "disseminates racial and religious prejudices...