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Last week a corps of assistants to School Superintendent William McAndrew of Chicago made their chief a report recommending the institution of all-year sessions in both grade and high schools. With a seating shortage of 40,000 staring him in the face, Superintendent McAndrew was impressed with their plan, interrogated parents far and near for opinions...
Chicago public school teachers were told that class hours are for teaching, not for pow-wowing. Since September, 1922, it had been their custom to hold council meetings among themselves at times when pupils were in school. Last week, William, McAndrew, vigorous new Chicago School Superintendent (TIME, Sept. 15), asked to know: 1) what advantage was lost by holding council meetings at other than school time; 2) what was gained by the teachers' excluding the Principals from councils. When Mr. McAndrew appealed to the Chicago Board of Education, showing that, though the teachers' meetings were valuable, the city...
Schools William McAndrew published his first annual report. A new broom, McAndrew was prepared tp sweep clean. He had conducted tests to show the Board how faulty was Chicago's teaching system, had found "appalling," "astounding," "very disappointing" facts about the pupils' ignorance of even the three R's and spelling. He deplored politics and blindness in the Board's past activities, lack of discipline among the teachers. Said he : "There is an organized disloyalty by a min ority that has lowered respect for the pursuit of teaching and made Chicago education notorious here and else...
...Board members agreed with McAndrew, save two. Said these: "In sult . . . slam against Chicago. . . . McAndrew alibis...
After a competition of several weeks, designs have been selected for the settings of Goldoni's "Liar", which has been chosen by the Dramatic Club for its twenty-sixth production. From several sets of designs submitted by members of the Dramatic Club last week, those of John McAndrew '24 were considered best suited to the requirements of the production...