Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the banquet table in St. Louis' Sheraton Hotel one night last week, a round-faced man sat beaming at the dozens of guests who had come to honor him. He was a man that a whole generation of schoolchildren should have known, for Waldo P. Johnson had revolutionized the spelling book...
...insistence on keeping courses "up to date," says Smith, the school has done its modern work at the expense of basic knowledge. Smith discovered schoolchildren who knew quite a bit about the organizations of the League of Nations and the United Nations ("a meaningless parroting of their elders") but had no idea, for instance, where Geneva...
...hummed with talk of royalties, acreage, porosity. Leases changed hands so fast that new maps of the county had to be issued twice a month (at $15 each). In nine months, Snyder's population had shot up from 3,000 to 15,000. To handle the overflow of schoolchildren, the town bought an empty schoolhouse 175 miles away and hauled it to Snyder. But it was still having trouble solving the multitude of other new problems-sanitation, housing, hospital facilities...
Last week New York University's School of Education reported that 26 graduate students were taking the nation's first collegiate course in writing comic books. Reason for the course: since most U.S. schoolchildren (and most adults) read comics, N.Y.U. had begun to think that U.S. educators better learn how to produce constructive ones...
...Religious Stigma." New Jersey's Attorney General Theodore D. Parsons moved for dismissal on the grounds that no proof had been offered that Gloria had suffered "any harm or damages from the reading of the verses"-especially since the law did not require that schoolchildren be present when the Bible is read. But Lawyer Zimel used the argument of Vashti McCollum in the Champaign case: he insisted that a pupil's absence during the reading inflicts upon him "a religious stigma and sets him apart from his fellows...