Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room schoolhouses in the state. The law was designed to cut Oklahoma's school bill and boost its educational standards, but Waterloo didn't see it that way. Next fall they would have to send their children to Edmond, two hours away by bus. Teacher Mary McKinney, who had lived thereabouts all her 47 years, was getting ready to move somewhere else. She was sure of one thing: "I don't want to teach in a city. City pupils are impudent...
...Paris classroom last week, a pupil scrawled a familiar bit of U.S. doggerel across the blackboard: "No more classes; no more books; no more teacher's cross-eyed looks." He was an American schoolboy, and most of his 140 classmates were Americans too. The same afternoon, wilting in the hot Paris sun, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery spoke at exercises for the first six students to graduate from the school in seven years...
Things were looking up for teachers in all 48 states. On the basis of a nationwide survey, the New York Times reported last week that teachers are "making the greatest financial gains in their history." By next fall salaries will be up an average of $400 a year. The biggest boost was given by Indiana, where the average teacher's average pay has jumped from $2,011 to $3,000. Mississippi, the lowest-paying state, has raised its average salary from $875 a year...
Many states are doing their best to make teaching more attractive by salary increases and more liberal contracts; a few are giving more sabbaticals and scholarships. But, concluded the Times, there is still a teacher shortage, and too many incompetent teachers...
...incorporate the St. Margaret-Mary Parochial School into the public-school system, entitling it to state support. They changed the school's name to the Grace Avenue School, ordered rent paid to the parish for the building, and put St. Margaret-Mary's eight teacher-nuns on the public payroll. The school stayed Catholic; its pupils went to class half an hour early every day for religious instruction...