Word: teach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many problems forced upon the United States by the present European conflict, one of the most important is an educational problem--What shall the schools teach about the war? This question cannot be solved by the method adopted by certain New York schools; there teachers were forbidden to speak about the war. The Graduate School of Education recently held a meeting of schoolmen to discuss the problem more fully. The results of this conclave have meaning for teacher and student alike...
Neither her parents nor the art instructors at her progressive schools ever tried to teach Dahlov. She went her own gait, shifting happily about from crayons to lithographs, wood carving to ceramics, water colors to oils. No prodigy, she had the varying interests of a normal, healthy child; through them all kept the Zorach household overrun with animals. Her long-suffering family did not even rebel when she brought home a baby skunk, though somehow it escaped during the night...
...high schools teach many things, but in most of them one subject is taboo -sex education. When Ellsworth B. Buck, a New York City School Commissioner, tried to break the taboo this year, he failed (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week the advocates of sex education tried again. This time they had the U. S. Government behind them...
...story has no more twists than a propeller, but moves at about the same speed. Brad Reynolds (Randolph Scott) is thirtyish and already too old for the airlines. The Civil Aeronautics Authority gives him a chance to get younger men off the ground, try to teach them to stay up. One morning a scary youngster freezes the controls, then while Brad is righting the plane, gracefully bails out. Brad later finds him, somewhat battered, dangling from a tree over a canyon. In rescuing the boy he falls himself, breaks both legs. A lad who has never before been alone...
...managing all social activities in the Union until a new Freshman class takes over next fall. These activities include dances, amateur nights, photographic contests, talks by men outside the University, talks on fields of concentration by Faculty members, and free reviews before examinations given by Faculty members who teach Freshman courses...