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Nearly all of greater Cleveland's 4,500 schoolmen & marms belong to a local guild called the Cleveland Federation of Teachers. Few months ago some of them decided it was time to join up with a national movement toward making life pleasanter for pedagogs. Last February they swallowed their professional pride, took out charter No. 279 in the American Federation of Teachers, affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. Last week with 1,200 members the local felt strong enough to beard Cleveland's Board of Education with a petition. That brought up the question of whether...
...favor of devaluating the dollar, is all against the Exchange bill. Solemnly Mr. Rand read the Committee an extraordinary memorandum which he had received from William Albert Wirt of Gary. Ind. Dr. Wirt, now 60, is superintendent of Gary's school system and one of the most famed schoolmen in the U. S. He is the inventor of the "platoon school," an educational plan by which classes are divided up. given alternate hours of class work. vocational training and play. Dr. Wirt has long been a supporter of the Committee for the Nation. Excerpts from his statement...
...order of things won. And having won, capitalism created a whole new culture in its own image, gradually absorbing even the Catholic Church, until today we find the Church fighting for its own inherent enemy, fighting the social doctrines of Karl Marx, "the last of the schoolmen," as Tawney puts it. The Catholic Church may be eternal, but its social philosophy is a part of the prevailing cultural organism and is as mortal as is that culture. TERTIUS...
...conference room occupied by one such conference every week!" Since then Commissioner Zook has sponsored three gatherings. One had to do with plans for a study of methods for evaluating the work of high schools. Of much more immediate interest to educators was a conference at which schoolmen told Administration officials how bad things are in their districts. Result of this was that Federal Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins announced that relief funds would henceforth be allotted to rural districts whose schools might otherwise be closed, and to rural and city schools for the education of illiterate adults (TIME, Sept...
...Junior Red Cross News, and all Junior Red Cross activities in Somerville.* The pen-&-ink drawing of Rafael, Juanita and the priest was captioned: "Rafael and Juanita stood before the priest, who murmured a blessing and placed a barley wafer in Juanita's mouth." The Somerville schoolmen called this "sacrilegious . . . offensive . . . un-American . . . ridiculing the great central act of worship of a great religious denomination." Other Massachusetts cities-Cambridge, Lowell, Lawrence, Everett, Fall River-joined in the ban, were followed by New York City...