Word: mcguffey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks ago the Krals were in court in Stillwater, answering charges brought by School Superintendent Thomas Campbell that they are violating the state's compulsory school attendance law. The embattled parents proudly reported the texts Tommy uses (one of them is a McGuffey Reader, copyrighted in 1879). submitted test results showing that their pupil has progressed some two years ahead of his contemporaries. The prosecution refused to argue about curriculum, and later, School Superintendent Thomas Campbell's only remark was: "We feel we have a real fine elementary school program...
Right or Wrong. The major difference between the old McGuffey and the new is the technique of teaching moral principles. McGuffey did not hesitate to spell out the point of his stories: e.g., the idle boy is almost invariably poor and miserable; the industrious boy is happy and prosperous. Dr. Ullin W. Leavell, "senior author" of the Modern McGuffey Readers, realized that today's schoolboy is too sophisticated to sit still for such out-of-date preaching. The Golden Rule Series only suggests the principle in its stories, lets the teacher bring out the point in discussions. The stories...
Ullin Leavell (rhymes with revel) was an obvious choice to oversee the Modern McGuffey. He heads the McGuffey Reading Clinic at the University of Virginia, where McGuffey himself taught for 28 years (1845-73). Leavell even owes his first name of Ullin to McGuffey. His parents were especially fond of Thomas Campbell's poem Lord Ullin's Daughter, which they had read as children in a McGuffey reader. For years Leavell has argued for a new version of old values. "It takes no more time to teach the child the phrase 'right or wrong,'" he says...
Funny & Serious. Impetus for the series came from the late Texas Publisher-Philanthropist Clyde E. Palmer, a loyal McGuffey old grad. The Palmer Foundation is underwriting $200,000 of the capital costs of the series, gets in return a 4% royalty. American Book started the series in 1956 with readers for the fourth, fifth and sixth grades, this summer brought out books for the first three grades. In 1959: volumes for seventh-and eighth-graders...
...Golden Rule Series will help curb juvenile delinquency by exposing pupils to their eleven themes. So far, at least, the children are meeting them halfway. In Cincinnati public schools, which bought sets of books for their fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, boys and girls are even reading the Modern McGuffey on their own time. The favorable reaction of one fifth-grade girl: "Things that are funny really are funny, and things that are serious really are serious...