Word: professionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Jewish Creed. Moses ben-Maimon, often referred to as "the Rambam" (from his title of rabbi plus the initials of his name), was only in his teens when persecution drove his family from their native Spanish city of Cordova to Morocco, and thence to Egypt, where his father died...
¶ The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune got indignant over the things some of the county's teachers are doing to make ends meet. For an extra $12 a day, two principals are working for the state as judge and chief inspector at the Tampa greyhound race track; another teacher gets...
It was this situation which prompted such organizations as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Program and the National Science Foundation to offer lucrative grants for graduate study. Yet educators are coming to realize that one-year grants are not enough. The avowed purpose of the Wilson grants is to attract...
The prospective graduate student in the arts and sciences, then, looks forward to immediate financial hardship and the long range certainty of never making a very high salary if he chooses the teaching profession. Yet today's graduate students are the ones who must teach the bulge of war-baby...
The financial problems of the academic profession will not be wiped out overnight, or even over a period of years. Teaching will never be as lucrative as law, medicine, or business. But something must be done to maintain the quality of the country's education. The best place to start...