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...most public-school superintendents and other taxpayers well know, many school boards are composed of public-spirited, well-intentioned citizens who don't know the first thing about overseeing a school system. Such boards often meet in secret and in ignorance, raise hob with sound budgets, scare off competent instructors, fiddle while schoolhouses crumble and educators burn. Many a board keeps no minutes of what good or ill it does...
...expanded the free art classes for public-school children, set up traveling shows for not-too-distant boarding schools -Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's and Groton. He bought records for musicales at the museum, engaged orchestras traveling between Boston and New York for cut-rate Sunday concerts. Worcester was one of the first U.S. museums to exhibit foreign films. Some staid Worcesterites thought it "too cheapening for words," but a lot of the unstaid began to come in for a look. At first, some of them came just for the movies. When a staffer gloated over the fact that...
Last year Herman Talmadge's Georgia legislature decided that any school district which did not provide separate schools would automatically lose its state funds. If segregation is declared unconstitutional, Georgia intends to turn the schools over to private operators and some how parcel state funds to individual students and let them "arrange" for their own education. Last month South Carolina voted (2-1) for a state amendment authorizing the end of the public-school system (which the legislature presumably would ratify if the Supreme Court rules against segregation). The schools would be turned over to churches or other private...
...public-school teacher in a Communist country may not have to think very much, but that does not mean that life is any the less exhausting. Last week, in News from Behind the Iron Curtain, a new monthly publication of the National Committee for a Free Europe, an escaped Czech teacher told why. Sample week in his former life...
...which must be made ... in the neighboring communities. The afternoon is spent on a 'persuasion drive' among the peasants ... It is sometimes spent journeying from house to house collecting signatures for the 'Peace' campaign, and thus ends a typical week in the life of a public-school teacher...