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...suburban Milwaukee, the Rev. Oscar Winninghoff of St. Aloysius' parish, said that his school would discontinue the first four grades in September 1965. Having failed to persuade the local public-school board to build a new 24-room school to educate children of his parish in secular subjects, Father Winninghoff said: "I'm going to quit talking. I'm saying, 'Here are 600 kids -you solve the problem. And I'm giving you a year and a half to solve it.' " Some parochial-school classes have been closed in Green Bay, Wis., Saginaw, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Schools Under Strain | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

Novelist Benedictus, who had a solidly scandalous success with a first novel, The Fourth of June, about the seamier side of public-school life, unfolds his story with brevity and considerable wit. He has a fine comic flair for translating the mechanized absurdities of big-city life into visions of surrealist fantasy. But in the last chapters of You're a Big Boy Now, his story loses its fine farcical edge, and he makes the fatal mistake of taking his hero seriously. He would have done well to keep in mind a famous aphorism observed by Evelyn Waugh: "Never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Rut, New Pilgrim | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...last fall, James B. Conant has been under heavy fire from teachers' groups - and with good reason. The main target of Conant's book is the "bankrupt" system of teacher certification by which states dictate what courses a potential teacher must take in college to get a public-school license. The result, he charged, is that colleges are forced to teach insipid "Mickey Mouse" courses that turn out uneducated teachers. Conant's solution: abolish the state rules, free colleges to upgrade teacher training, make classroom performance the test of certification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teachers: Conant v. the Establishment | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

...fizzle!" scoffed James B. Donovan, president of New York City's Board of Education. "A whoopee success!" cried a Negro leader. Such were the wildly opposing verdicts last week as almost half of New York's 1,000,000 public-school children-464,362, to be exact-stayed home during a one-day boycott protesting de facto segregated schools. Allowing for hooky players and the normal 100,000 absentee rate, it was still the biggest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: The Spreading Boycott | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

Mild Blighty. Son of a distinguished London publisher, Alec went to his father's school, Sherborne, where he was everything a public-school boy should be: a star batsman at cricket, a fine forward at rugby, a winner of the English verse prize. What changed that Kiplingesque image was a mild flirtation he had with a younger boy. When it was discovered, the experience soured his last months in school but inspired the novel that brought him early fame -The Loom of Youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not Unworthy of Evelyn | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

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