Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ashcan School. Crazier still were the neighbors, who complained that the bongos and other assorted beatnik activities were giving Venice a bad name. After police ruled only that Owner Matthews must have an entertainment license for the Gas House, the townspeople shuddered, got their Venice Civic Union to fight the licensing. The beatniks sent for the Civil Liberties Union, and after generously beautifying Venice's alleys by painting vivid abstractions on garbage cans, got ready for battle...
Showing up in Atlantic City, N.J. to talk before an Israel Bond rally, Novelist Leon Uris (Exodus, Battle Cry), 35, recalled his record at Philadelphia's Bartram High School, said he had flunked English three times and was about to register flunk No. 4 when he enlisted in the Marine Corps. To Uris, who recently signed a contract with Columbia Pictures for four sight-unseen novels, the matter was merely academic, but "it's a good thing English has nothing to do with writing...
...distressed and discontented majority,'' warned Britain's Lord Macaulay. "This opinion," retorted President-to-be James Garfield. "leaves out the great counterbalancing force of universal education/' The focus of a European town remained the cathedral; the focus of an American town became the high school. By the 20th century, quipped Britain's Historian Denis Brogan. U.S. public education was a "formally unestablished national church...
...staggering. From less than 16 million in 1900, enrollment has jumped to 36 million. From less than $215 million in 1900, the annual cost has soared to $14.4 billion (about 3% of the Gross National Product). Of all U.S. families, 40% have one or more children in public school.*Of all living Americans, one out of five is a public-school student...
Splendid & Shameful. The outstanding feature of James Conant's long (1933-53) reign as president of Harvard was his interest in education-notably public schools. Among besieged educators, he was well known (and trusted) long before he became U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to West Germany (1953-57). Among plain citizens he has won towering respect since The American High School Today (McGraw-Hill; $1) was published early this year. This fall Conant embarks on a second study: the junior high school. Nobody has already done more to convince Americans that high schools can improve-"with no radical change...