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...public schools. Later, when he became an editor of the Communist New Masses, he learned another version. Last week New York City's Board of Superintendents voted to ban 32-year-old Alumnus Fast's fast-selling (875,000 U.S. copies) novel Citizen Tom Paine from all public-school bookshelves...
...half-dozen broad essay questions, fairly testing their factual preparation, their grasp of ideas, their literary style. The 46,087 boys & girls who took the College Boards last year were just too many and various to grade in the old way; more than half of them were public-school students-products of a dozen different curriculums. Four years ago, the board tossed out the essay-type exam entirely (except in English composition...
...foregather at the nearby Automat are apt to be found across the street at the George Washington Hotel, which before the war always kept a ten-pound cheese handy for them at the bar. This year City College added a third "campus," for veterans only: a former public-school building on West 50th Street...
...skills, it "clearly and necessarily had to be a school for rich boys."* Diman wanted to do something for working-class boys. In 1912, the Diman Vocational School opened its doors in Fall River, Mass., the big mill town where Diman's father had been a minister. Backed by Unionist John Golden, the school trained boys of 14 to 16 (too old for grammar school, too young for the mills) in manual trades. Today Diman Vocational is part of the Fall River public-school system...
...York City's public-school corridors have never been zones of quiet. In the past three years, they have been even noisier because of a dowdy little Brooklyn civics teacher named May Quinn. The hot-tempered debate about her simmered up out of the public schools, splashed down over the Manhattan press. The consensus: May Quinn was not fit to teach civics to anybody...