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...Crawford of the Westridge School in Pasadena, California, has won first people in the Radcliffe English prize scholarship examination, Dean Kerby-Miller announced yesterday...
...still far from resolved and far from being just a local affair. It has echoed its way across the nation, because it seems to involve all the confused and arbitrary pressures that plague public schoolmen everywhere. This week, in a fast-paced little book called This Happened in Pasadena (Macmillan; $2.50) David Hulburd, onetime chief of TIME'S news bureaus, gives a dramatic, behind-the-scenes report of those pressures and how they grew...
...Vote NO!" Willard Goslin came to Pasadena in 1948, an able man who had served as superintendent in Minneapolis and had recently been elected president of the American Association of School Administrators. Pasadena was proud to have him, and at first the school board approved everything he did. Willard Goslin had a year to settle himself into his job before he began to hear disturbing news. In the winter of 1949, a small group of citizens began attacking the schools at a series of meetings held in the American Legion Hall. Most of them thought their children were not doing...
Delinquency & Communism. Pasadena did vote no, but the council was not through with Goslin yet. It demanded a full "ideological investigation" of the entire school system, hinted that the school program was "part of a campaign to 'sell' our children on the collapse of our way of life." The council's Chairman Frank Wells used the writings of rabble-rousing Allen Zoll, onetime advocate of Father Coughlin, to back up his charge that progressive education fosters juvenile delinquency. Wells's successor, Osteopath Ernest Brower, was convinced that sex education (a pre-Goslin innovation) would lead straight...
...sort of attack that hurls irresponsible charges without denning terms, or even finding out whether the charges are true or not. The result is that the attack not only damages the schools, but debases the honest criticisms of thoughtful citizens as well. Concludes Author Hulburd: "What . . . happened in Pasadena could easily happen in other cities where modern educational systems [come] under attack...