Word: kerwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...KERWIN HOOVER International Falls, Minn...
...Five years ago University of Chicago began a study of school control, assigned to it an educator and a political scientist. Last week, after studying school systems in the 191 cities (33 of which they visited), the educator, Professor Nelson B. Henry, and the political scientist, Professor Jerome G. Kerwin. made a surprising report.* They agreed that so-called "independent" school systems had just as much politics and corruption as dependent ones...
Citing few specific facts to support their conclusions, Investigators Henry & Kerwin reported: "The politics with which the schools are beset at the present time are injected . . . just as frequently by school boards as by representatives of the legislative or executive branches of political government. In addition there are instances of tampering with the schools which involves collusion between the school board and a political machine. In fact, there is ground for the contention that an independent school board merely provides two possible sources of political interference instead...
Professors Henry & Kerwin concluded that the best system is control of the schools by regular municipal executives because it: 1) enables cities to co-ordinate education with other activities, such as recreation and health; 2) enables voters to put their fingers on the individuals responsible for good or bad school management...
...write good scripts. With a $55,000 budget, Director Miller reported, the Council had provided its members with $300,000 worth of broadcasting service. Most popular Council program is the University of Chicago Round Table, in which chatty professors like Philosopher Thomas Vernor Smith and Political Scientist Jerome Kerwin discuss such topics as "The Elections" or "The Abdication of Edward VIII...