Word: roslyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roslyn, a small suburban village on Long Island's north shore, live estate owners, commuters and many Polish, Italian and Negro families whose breadwinners work on the estates. In Roslyn's schools children from all these groups sit side by side. Ten years ago these schools began to go "progressive." Since tall, athletic Superintendent Frederick R. Wegner (a onetime Cornell baseball player) arrived four years ago, they have won fame outside Roslyn. But progressive education, though less costly in Roslyn than in some other towns, is more expensive than old-fashioned schooling and a year ago Roslyn taxpayers...
With progressive education as much subject to attack as the New Deal, Roslyn's school troubles drew wide attention. Its school board quickly asked the New York State Department of Education to investigate. Last week, after a year's thorough probing, the State delivered its verdict in the case of Progressive v.Traditional Education in Roslyn...
Instead of a formal curriculum, Roslyn's schools have an activities program. Thus its schoolchildren build boats or Indian tepees, and in so doing learn incidentally to read & write, learn something about history, science, art. When Roslyn's boys make nut bread, Superintendent Wegner explained, they not only enjoy a creative activity but learn to add, subtract & multiply...
...York's Department of Education set out to determine how well Roslyn's children read, wrote & multiplied. The investigating committee, headed by Assistant Commissioner John Cayce Morrison, sympathetic to progressive education, also tried to measure how well Roslyn was getting along toward good social and moral habits, an understanding of the world, "joy and happiness." Last week Dr. Morrison produced a 56-page report, announced these salient findings...
Typical example of this was Portrait (see cut) by 9-year-old Rudy Reni of Roslyn Heights, N. Y., who had the Duchess of Windsor in mind. A vivid twister in yellow, black and purple it was a dead ringer for a simple Matisse. This picture, incidentally, was an exception to the general rule that young children paint in the horizontal plane, older children in the vertical. The paintings which as a group undoubtedly stole the show were almost all horizontal-193 "finger paintings" by children from three to ten years...