Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower, in his commencement address at the United States Naval Academy last week, noted that fifty percent of the United States' diplomatic service has little or no ability in tongues other than English. Here is another result of America's deemphasis of the so-called "impractical" aspects of education; such an apparent lack of interest in foreign countries cannot help but give an unfavorable impression to the rest of the world. At a time when the United States needs friendly allies more than ever before, such an educational lacuna may assume considerable importance...
...Forty percent believe the earth to be the center of the Universe...
Forty-two percent will resist any attempt to change that mystic nebulosity, "the American Way of Life...
...guess," she said, "is that about half of our pupils take about four solids and no more than ten percent take five or more at any time. Many pupils take five solids the semester they take safety"--a required half-year course, which is considered a solid...
Over one-half of Horace Mann's graduates attend college, but the average for the whole city is less than 20 percent. Mark C. Roser, supervisor of the schools' Public Personnel Division, has commented that the Gary high schools "cannot completely be geared to the needs of the twenty percent of the group who go on to college, if we are going to have democratic schools...