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...militancy is that, while salaries in grade and high schools have risen spectacularly over the past decade (from an average of $4,239 to $6,821), teachers still earn far less than many workers of comparable training and less responsibility. During the same period, the number of men in public-school teaching has risen from one-fourth to one-third. Today, says Ralph Paul Joy, an assistant director of the National Education Association, teachers are too aroused merely to present a "timid, trembling salary request on ditto paper" and hold meetings merely for "the passing of the gavel...
...Under the 1952-1964 presidency of Carl J. Megel, membership grew from 39,000 to 100,000. The union's biggest local, New York City's United Federation of Teachers, contributed to its expansion by successful strikes in 1960 and 1962 that coaxed up to 20,000 public-school teachers out on strike -and won them handsome pay boosts...
Times change, and so does the Supreme Court-sometimes quite rapidly. In 1952, during Senator Joseph McCarthy's heyday, the court confirmed the validity of New York State's Feinberg Law, barring subversives from the public-school system. The matter seemed settled then and there. Last week the court ruled again on the Feinberg Law. This time it reversed itself, ruling by a vote of 5 to 4 that the law is now unconstitutional. Such short-term reversal is not unprecedented, but it does require agile rethinking on the court's part. The 1952 case, decided...
...John Gardner, who was head of the Carnegie Corporation when testing was first proposed, and Education Commissioner Harold Howe favor the program. So does the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which recently implied its support by deploring the fact that "there is little information to measure the quality of the public-school output-the student or graduate...
...professional educators are bitterly opposed. One such enemy is the executive committee of The American Association of School Administrators, representing 16,500 public-school superintendents. The committee has asked association members not to cooperate with the testing on the ground that assessment "will be coercive, will inevitably lead to the pressure of regional, state and local comparisons, and will have national overtones in the dispensing of federal aid." The committee claims that its stand has been informally endorsed by leaders of five other major education groups, including the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and the National Education Association...