Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cities, however, the curricula are generally excellent. These schools offer a broad selection of courses, equalling in scope many passable northern school systems. Along with the traditional offering of physics, chemistry, trigonometry, and solid geometry, Southern urban schools are now introducing physiology, advanced mathematics, German, and geology into their programs. The basic requirements in urban schools are similar to their northern counterparts--four years of English, three of math, two of science and social studies--and college-bound students take a great many more than these...
...progress is slowly being made in educational methods. In Georgia's DeKalb Country, the school board has begun breaking classes up into ability groups, enabling the poor student to set his own pace, and the good student to move ahead. Many schools direct their good students into college courses, offering analytic geometry to those able to undertake this advanced work. In addition, Ford Foundation grants have enabled some schools in Atlanta to offer elementary calculus and extensive studies in English literature and American history...
...result of such an overburdened schedule of trivia, over half of U.S. high schools have no foreign language requirement, no science requirement, and no mathematics requirement for graduation. There are no available facilities for advanced study in English literature. Where 75 per cent of our high schools offer typing courses, only 40 per cent have school newspapers appearing as regularly as once a month--and some of those are mimeographed. Advertising, shorthand, auto shop, and a half-term of empirical economics teaching you how to avoid being gypped when you purchase an automobile--these are the trade and social courses...
...financing of a football team and rereleased motion picture entertainment for lunch period ennui. If Herschell were a colored boy, he wouldn't get decent school facilities in a good many sections of the South. If Herschell came from a Plains state, his high school probably couldn't offer a course in physics...
Several Gary high schools offer four years of ROTC for credit. The course is intended to "develop habits of orderliness and precision, discipline and respect for constituted authority, patriotism and honorable deportment; and to develop understanding and appreciation of the Army in its role of defense and of the opportunities available in military service...