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When the news broke, Los Angeles newspapers rushed it into headlines: 330 OF L.A. HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS CAN'T TELL TIME. In scores of phone calls, parents lashed out at the schoolmen, and the schoolmen lashed right back ("If we work the kids," said Blair, "we get hell. If we don't work them, we get hell"). At an open meeting of the board of education, Superintendent Alexander Stoddard asked for $2,250,000 to hire 500 more teachers and to give special instruction to backward students...
...81st year, William Heard Kilpatrick is still a formidable figure to U.S. educators-a courtly, silver-haired scholar who next to John Dewey has been the nation's foremost apostle of progressive education. Some schoolmen have revered him and some have damned him, but all have felt his influence. Last week scholars and educators from all over the U.S. assembled in a Manhattan ballroom to celebrate his fourscore years. And last week, in a new biography by ex-Student Samuel Tenenbaum,*readers could learn just what his influence has been in the U.S. school system...
Mortimer Smith, who once served as a Connecticut school-board member, is the author of some scorching criticism of U.S. public schools (TIME, Dec. 5, 1949). Writing last week in the Christian Century, he lit into the schoolmen's countercharge that their critics are mostly just religious zealots and neo-fascist superpatriots...
...picked his appointments well (among them: Novelist Robert Penn Warren, Chemist John G. Kirkwood, Political Scientist James W. Fesler). He has even reached down to the secondary schools, which he regards as the weakest link in the educational chain. His M.A. for teachers is an attempt to give schoolmen courses-not just in pedagogy, of which they often have too much, but also in the stuff and substance of their subjects, of which they usually have too little...
Last month he decided to launch a one-man crusade to set the schoolmen straight. He began printing an experimental law letter, sending it out to selected officials across the U.S. Before he knew it, subscription money was pouring in-from teachers, school superintendents and state departments of education. Last week, as Dean Hamilton mailed out his sixth letter, he knew that his experiment was a success...