Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have got to live and build, while we have the time, a fuller and freer world for ourselves. We have got to see that not only our military alliances but our political thought and economic policies match up to the level of the great scientific and technical advances which the world has made. Whether it be in a great Commonwealth like ours or a great continent like yours, we can no longer afford to think parochially...
...enlist the services of a fast-running newcomer. They had reason enough: Incumbent Herschel C. (for Cel-lel) Loveless, 47, rough-cut sample of the conservatism that marks today's Democratic Governors. By vetoing the legislature's extension of the sales tax at the 2½% level, thus letting it slip to 2%, Loveless last year won the retailers around the border counties, then placated other groups by looking sad when he had to veto the school program that the sales tax would have supported. In outspoken contrast, Professor (of Agricultural Economics) Murray lectures that the sales...
...parliamentary visitors, the Papuans are not being prepared to take their place in the 20th century world. So far, said the report, the Netherlands government has had "no success" in setting up an educational system adapted to Papuan needs. "Where education is available at the village schools, the highest level attained is scarcely that of the third grade in Dutch elementary schools . . . About 5,000 children attend these village schools, and 5% of them are given the opportunity of enjoying further education . . . There is not yet a single Papuan with a high school diploma...
...Advanced Placement courses approximate college-level work with varying success. Because of expenses of buying books (a public school does not require students to purchase their books), the Advanced Placement History section is confined too closely to a text for its readings. The English class, however, gives conscientious students a workout which matches that of lower level Harvard Humanities course. In 1955-56, one third of the year was spent on drama and the work centered around a theme once known to freshmen here as "Ideas of Good and Evil in Western Literature." During the winter, poetry, essays...
...Herschell and the gifted children even this is not sufficient. The most obvious answer to their need may be derived from the words of the school board member quoted above. The gifted child must receive special attention. There must be special, advanced level classes in English and social studies, science, and mathematics. "Segregation" on the basis of intellect and ability--contrary to the charge of "undemocratic"--is in the best interests and tradition of a democracy in seeking out its best and training them. Bright students should be classed with bright students for stimulation and competition, instead of subjected...