Word: pupils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only two years his senior. Of this man. Henry Suzzallo, he made a life-long friend. Four years after Professor Suzzallo approved Walter Jessup's dissertation Social Factors Affecting Special Supervision in the Public Schools in the United States, and gave him his Ph. D., both teacher and pupil were called to head State universities-Suzzallo to Washington, Jessup to Iowa. Both men proved able administrators, energetic money-getters. Each raised his school mightily in size and prestige. In the process each once ran foul of his State's governor. President Suzzallo's feud with Washington...
Widow Jennie Smith's four youngsters, aged 9 to 16, and 35 other Florida farm children were packed in their school bus when it reached the end of its outward route one morning last week. There one pupil's parent had built a special turnaround, so the bus would not have to cross the Atlantic Coast Line tracks on its way back to Crescent City's elementary school. But the morning was so foggy that D. R. Niles, the 65-year-old bus driver, kept to the road. He had just put the bus's front...
STALIN (Djugashvili) Joseph Vissarionovich (born in 1879), an Old Bolshevik,* a professional revolutionist, V. I. Lenin's nearest and most loyal pupil and comrade in arms, a prominent theorist...
Letter ratings were an improvement because they did not require such impossible exactness. All such ratings, however, have defects when used with school children. They are comparative rather than diagnostic, the comparison being both with a pass mark and with other pupils. They show nothing of the degree of effort, shown, the development the pupil is making, the weaknesses that should be overcome, or the strength that should be recognized...
Such a "marking" has meaning to school executives, parents and the pupils themselves. The brilliant, lazy student does not receive satisfaction from high marks that are inherited rather than earned, and the hard-working, slow pupil receives recognition for his good qualities...