Word: letson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took vacations in the summer, when their children were out of school, resulting in summertime business slowdowns and production losses. Another advantage of the summer quarter lies in providing useful activity for poor children who have no other resort in summer than the streets. Superintendent of Schools John W. Letson points out that the old school-year structure was developed in a rural past. In an urban society, he says, "it does not seem like good planning to turn all the children loose at the same time...
...said Lyndon Johnson in his rambling pastoral prose, and many U.S. educators agree with him about the historic importance of the new law that is formally titled the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. "It is a tremendous breakthrough," says Atlanta School Superintendent John Letson. "As significant as the passing of social security legislation," says Lindley Stiles, dean of the University of Wisconsin's School of Education. New York State Education Commissioner James E. Allen Jr. forecasts a "tremendous impact" for the bill; to him, it symbolizes the fact that the knowledge explosion...
Room for Evasion. The decisions left plenty of room for more segregationist evasion. In Atlanta, school officials were relieved that the court had not directly outlawed their mode of gradualism. Said Superintendent of Schools John Letson: "I think that the district court will review what the board of education has done, and see that it has done it in good faith...