Word: pedagoguese
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Each June since the College Boards were started in 1900, boys and girls aspiring to U.S. Eastern colleges have had to go through the ordeal of two-or three-hour tests in college preparatory subjects. Even pedagogues disliked them; a Carnegie Foundation survey found some of them so fuzzy that...
To launch his educational program, which the rest of the Army watched with interest, General Lear chose seven officers from his staff as a faculty nucleus. All are properly equipped with college degrees. Heading the military pedagogues will be Major Ronald Shaw of the Second Cavalry Division, onetime assistant professor...
The four and a half year old Commission, created by the National Education Association to chart national policies, is a kind of spiritual adviser to the schools. It includes such bigwig pedagogues as Philadelphia's Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard, Cornell's President Edmund E. Day, U. S. Commissioner...
Lukas Foss was born Lukas Fuchs, son of a Berlin lawyer and a painter. The Fosses, Jewish, went to Paris in 1933, where Lukas, who had begun his musical lispings at seven, studied with pedagogues of the Conservatoire. In 1937 the family reached the U. S., put Lukas in Philadelphia...
Professor Ralph Winfred Tyler, University of Chicago's famed chief examiner and professor of education, believes that U. S. high schools and colleges do not teach students to think. Because pedagogues lack even the means of finding out whether students can think, Professor Tyler and colleagues spent three months...