Word: kindergarten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jose, Calif., red-haired M. Gualtieri, the best-known kindergarten teacher at Hester Grammar School, celebrated her first year of unprofitable schoolteaching by deciding to be a red-haired hat-check girl...
Twenty-six kindergarten kids at New York City's P.S. 90 got off their views on war & peace to U.N. Delegate Warren Austin (who promised to ponder them). Teacher Alma Haring, who sent him the message; set it all down just the way they told her..Excerpts...
...teacher with the funny accent last week told a Kansas City kindergarten class a favorite story she had brought from London, The Tale of a Turnip. In an "infants' school" in London, the teacher from Kansas City entertained her pupils with a U.S. nursery story about The Little Engine That Could...
...oftentimes in his first few weeks, required to grapple with the major issues of human existence-he may be plunged into the world of St. Augustine, Grace & Freedom, or into the Reformation, or the ancient tragedies, or medieval economic life-and all this with no more than a kindergarten child's knowledge of the great words and concepts of religion. It is no wonder that history remains a riddle to the ordinary student, and philosophy a dull and mysterious irrelevance...
Died. Lucy Wheelock, 87, U.S. pioneer in kindergarten education, for over half a century one of its most vigorous exponents, founder of the Wheelock College in Brookline, Mass, for the training of kindergarten teachers, onetime president of the International Kindergarten Union; in Boston...