Word: principall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"It is your job," a primary school principal said to a visiting mother one day, "to feed and clothe him; we shall educate him."
It is very doubtful that this principal--head of one of the best schools in educationally-praised Westchester County, N.Y., really believed in this dichotomy of upbringing; certainly in her own school, which, many parents believed, was run by the PTA, she did not practice it. But her remark indicates...
Secondary education in the South is now "mediocre, but getting better," according to one high school principal in Atlanta. In terms of national averages, Southern educational figures seem dangerously low because of the large undeveloped rural territory. Teachers come from poor educational backgrounds, they receive low wages, and many have...
Scarsdale High Principal, Oliver W. Melchior, welcomes the new four-year arrangement. The more volatile seventh and eighth graders no longer race around the halls, and Melchior says, "given our circumstances the four year organization is more desirable in that it groups the college preparatory work after eighth grade under...
Developing the ability to write good exposition is a problem at all levels of the school, a difficulty which seems to be prevalent through out the country. Even the Advanced Placement English class finds trouble fitting in enough time to work on writing. The school administration has moved this year...