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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until recently the U.S. colony in Saigon had gone largely unmolested by the Reds, and in the capital the war seemed strangely remote. The Americans even managed to create a Main Street flavor, complete with Brownie Scouts, a Rotary Club and a P.T.A...
Ever since his bestselling The Education of American Teachers appeared last fall, James B. Conant has been under heavy fire from teachers' groups - and with good reason. The main target of Conant's book is the "bankrupt" system of teacher certification by which states dictate what courses a potential teacher must take in college to get a public-school license. The result, he charged, is that colleges are forced to teach insipid "Mickey Mouse" courses that turn out uneducated teachers. Conant's solution: abolish the state rules, free colleges to upgrade teacher training, make classroom performance...
...main job of a pediatrician is not to cure normal diseases--the children do that themselves--but rather to reassure the mother. This, in America, is a terribly difficult job." Difficult or not, the speaker, Dr. Benjamin Spock, could claim phenomenal success at the task. Known to countless young parents as the author of Baby and Child Care, he is the most famous baby-doctor in America today...
Money is the main obstacle to the proposal. Some observers have estimated the cost of moving the lines out of the dining halls and into the kitchens at as much as $150,000 in Houses where large structural changes would be needed...
Someone else wondered whether integration would really improve Negro education. Breeden thought both Negroes and whites would benefit: "There is more to education than the factual material learned or the skills acquired, and that 'more' has to do with being involved in the main stream of society...