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...arrival of important visitors to both schools pushes the two principals into a crack-brained collaboration. Anxious to hide the ministry's error, they synchronize their watches and plot a schedule for two guided tours, each designed to exhibit one school at a time. This antic scheme, played to the hilt, leads to chaos, rioting and some hilarious glimpses of English public-school traditions and traditionalists under stress...
Santa Barbara School had long since moved down from the hills to a handsome $600,000 Spanish-colonial-style plant on a mesa overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Its alumni, canvassing West Coast parents and public-school principals, had lined up a record number of applicants for the coming year. And Santa Barbara, with an endowment of $200,000, a staff of 13 and 61 students (tuition & board: $2,000), was about to launch a $125,000 building project which would make room for 125 students...
Born in northern Mississippi, the eighth of "just eleven children" of ex-slave parents, Alexander Shaw started out to be a public-school teacher, but finally followed his father and an elder brother into the ministry. At one of his first assignments, in Winchester, Va., Dr. Shaw found the second-floor ceiling of his parsonage too low for him. When he solved the problem by persuading his congregation to rent him another house while leasing the parsonage quarters "to a much shorter man," newspapers in Washington and New York delightedly picked up the story and caused him "a good deal...
...some 50 years the school board of Spokane has had a "gentleman's agreement" ruling against employing married women as public-school teachers. Last week, finding that 300 of its 600 women teachers had husbands despite the rule, the board had decided to face facts and scrap it. New ruling in Spokane: teachers who are expectant mothers may have up the 12 months maternity leave...
Despite his thorough background in teaching and school administration, Adams knew he would find that following George Zook was no easy job. Since 1934, Zook had seen that omnibus organization grow from 269 to 1,093 member groups, representing most of the important U.S. public-school systems, private and state-supported colleges and universities, and education societies. Under Zook, the council also became a strong bridge between U.S. educational institutions and the U.S. Government, had one of the most respected independent voices in all U.S. education policymaking. Two measures that had strong A.C.E. support: the Mead bill for G.I. student...