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...important aspect of this American tradition of voluntarism, Adams said, is the exclusion of religious elements from public-school education, and the denial of public funds to parochial and church-related schools...
...money must be spent. Most of the $1.3 billion authorized for elementary and secondary schools will go to districts with 3% of their student enrollment from families making under $2,000 a year-a qualification that includes 90% of all U.S. school districts. To sweeten the package for some of those who have opposed such bills in the past, the Johnson measure allows private and parochial (largely Catholic) schools to get their own federal funds for books and to "share" whatever new federally purchased public-school facilities are created in their area. A $2.3 billion higher-education bill, rammed through...
While Australia appreciated the royal attention, its public-school administrators were somewhat miffed that the prince will attend such an upper-class school. "If the desire is for the prince to meet Australians, it is desirable for him to meet ordinary run-of-the-mill Australians," sniffed Douglas Broadfoot, an official of the New South Wales Teachers Federation. "Leaders of the government have been seriously remiss in not advising the Queen more accurately. Prince Charles might just as well stay in England and attend Eton as come to Australia and go to Geelong Grammar...
...first such conference since Dwight Eisenhower called one ten years ago. Yet there were major differences -notably in the men assembled to scrutinize the nation's schooling. Eisenhower's conference was dominated by public-school administrators, school-board representatives, and such vested interests as the National Education Association. More in evidence at the Johnson meeting was a new breed of outside innovators, such as Carnegie Corp. President John Gardner who served as chairman; U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel, who does not even hold a graduate degree; and a host of university-oriented reformers, ranging from James B. Conant...
...Concerns. Educators' concerns have also shifted dramatically in the decade. The most debated issue in 1955 was the role of the Federal Government in public-school education; this year's conferees took federal involvement for granted. The earlier conference concentrated on such grand and general topics as what schools should teach and what were the nation's educational goals. More pragmatic in nature were the 18 themes-ranging from dropouts to teacher training-discussed this year during the sectional meetings held at Washington's Statler-Hilton. Underlying them all was an issue scarcely discussed a decade...