Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school board for not following its own ruling. Earlier, Pecjak had offered to resign, was refused with thanks. Now Speer turned in his resignation, had it accepted by an unruffled school board. Last week Superintendent Speer turned over his job to the assistant superintendent, who also happens to be supervisor of high school ski instruction. At week's end Pecjak was standing firm on his statement that may have voted for that eligibility thing, but that doesn't mean I feel a C in every subject is necessarily right. You have to have cooperation from the teachers...
Orbiting Wheel: supervisor at a busy launching...
...Last year 14 states did not require even a single course in science or mathematics for a high school diploma. While 27 states maintain special supervisors for physical education, and all 48 have supervisors for home economics, agriculture and "distributive trades," only two states employ a mathematics supervisor, and only six have supervisors for science...
...Years Old. With the help of Reed College, Portland has been holding such classes for its gifted pupils since 1952. The program is so successful that last fall some teachers finally asked Math Supervisor Lesta Hoel: "Why can't we have a class in modern math for teachers too?" The teachers decided that they and some youngsters should learn together under five Reed-trained instructors, and Supervisor Hoel even joined the class herself. Research in mathematics, she explains, has advanced so rapidly that today's teachers are now way out of date. "We're using in geometry...
...teachers, the course is anything but a snap. While the pupils grasp the latest teaching with ease, the teachers must first discard much of what they were taught, master such new (to them) terms as Cartesian products, null sets and strict inequalities. "In trigonometry, for instance," says Supervisor Hoel, "the emphasis used to be on surveying and navigation. Now the emphasis is on vectors, the theory of sets, probability, statistics and symbolic logic...