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...former San Francisco school superintendent, is director of the National Occupational Conference, which was founded in 1922-under the leadership of General Robert Irwin Rees, head of the A.E.F.'s University in France in 1918-19-to gather facts about jobs. Dr. Lee herded 13 top-rank public-school superintendents into a private Pullman and for ten days, with their expenses paid by the Carnegie Corporation, these superintendents toured the schools of eight cities. They found interesting experiments, but nowhere did the superintendents find a complete, effective program of occupational adjustment...
...authors, Winifred Watson, a St. Paul public-school teacher, and Julius M. Nolte of University of Minnesota, acted on the advice of Ralph Waldo Emerson to "smuggle" into grammar teaching "a little contraband wit, fancy, imagination, thought." Their defense for trying to teach grammar painlessly: modern children not only find grammar study dull but arrive in high school and college knowing wretchedly little about...
...mainly New York City, Detroit, Pittsburgh and San Francisco), for the summer trip to Italy. Of its $6,500,000 annual budget for propaganda abroad, Italy spends nearly half to support, wholly or partly, some 800 schools, most of which are in the U. S., France and South America. In the U. S., these schools are usually conducted after public-school hours, ostensibly to teach Italian...
...found occasion last week to hold the second. On the walls of the big mezzanine galleries of Rockefeller Center's International Building were posted more than 1,000 crayon, tempera and water color drawings by children in 530 U. S. and Canadian schools, an exhibition sponsored by the public-school art directors of 30 cities...
Atlantic City's hotel lobbies buzzed with angry talk. Catholico-phobes spluttered that the Church already dominated some public-school systems, pointed as an example to New Haven, Conn., where two public schools are staffed by nuns.* Eight hundred adherents of the left-wing "Social Frontier" group demanded that Federal aid be restricted to public schools. Before the Association's legislative committee, up rose conservative, heavy-jowled Dr. George Drayton Strayer, of Columbia University's Teachers College, to cry: "Let's not have any church- Catholic, Protestant or Jewish-using public money to make propaganda...