Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, it is clear that all is not stagnate: progress is slowly being made in educational methods. In Georgia's DeKalb Country, the school board has begun breaking classes up into ability groups, enabling the poor student to set his own pace, and the good student to move ahead. Many schools direct their good students into college courses, offering analytic geometry to those able to undertake this advanced work. In addition, Ford Foundation grants have enabled some schools in Atlanta to offer elementary calculus and extensive studies in English literature and American history...
...standards in the South are also below the national average. Because there are fewer teachers' colleges or even colleges, there are fewer teachers. This says nothing of the low wage scale; all wages in the south are low and the teacher's is hardly an exception. The lack of progress in a child is not necessarily due to poor teaching, for the social climate may also contribute to the lack of respect for academic subjects...
...most emotional obstacle to progress in Southern schools is the enormous problem of segregation of the school systems. This issue does not materially affect the technicalities of the curriculum, but does cause tremendous emotional difficulties. School standards for Negroes would undoubtedly rise of they would receive the same financial attention as white students in the same schools. The Supreme Court decision has already caused deep emotional conflicts. One elementary school teacher in Gwinnet Country, Georgia, was fired last year for refusing to denounce the court order in the classroom. The state legislature has debated a resolution that teachers must sign...
...better school system will arise and drown the cries for no schools at all if they have to be integrated, or for a ridiculous private school system now existing as laws in Georgia and Virginia. There is a deep desire for improvement in the South, though the rate of progress must seem unbelievably slow and very characteristically Southern to outsiders. But the roots are there; they merely have to grow. The South will not remain in a state of suspended stagnation, but must eventually rise to better standards of education. The wheels have already begun to turn; they only need...
...Dutch travellers had the misfortune of being exposed to this perversion. Passing near Old Harvard Hall they heard so much noise coming from the second floor that they thought a fight was in progress. Entering the building, they went upstairs, where they found "eight or ten young fellows, sitting around, smoking tobacco" in a smoke-filled room that to them looked more like a tavern than a college chamber...