Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average U. S. schoolteacher is a woman of 29. She never went to college, but, after high school, graduated from a teacher training institution (normal school). The 163 U. S. normal schools and teachers' colleges, many of which came into being during the teacher shortage of a generation ago, still hold a virtual monopoly of elementary schoolteaching jobs, since most State Boards of Education so frame their course and credit requirements that many ordinary college graduates are promptly disqualified. That the normal school subsists on a realm of privileged technical training is the belief of many...
...Students in teacher training schools . . . are substantially lower than comparable liberal arts students in the scores which they secure in nearly all tests . . . of intelligence, mathematics, foreign languages, natural science, social science. . . . No student should be admitted to professional educational classes who is at entrance to college below the present average of liberal arts college freshmen. Since this would exclude at least 60% of pupils now in teacher training institutions over the country, it represents an ideal rather than opinion. . . . Many of these students are literate only in the legal sense of the word...
...Teacher Ney settled in Iredell County, N. C. In the library of nearby Davidson College, whose seal he designed, he read books on recent French history, drew sketches of Napoleon and Ney in the margins, scribbled comments on the authors' accuracy. On his deathbed in 1846 he declared: "I am Marshal Ney of France." He was buried in the cemetery of Third Creek Presbyterian Church near Statesville...
...print these might seem bold words, but Premier Blum spoke in the low, monotonous voice of a teacher reading some-well-worn lecture to his class. Gloomily he concluded: "Faith in peace is shaken. The final catastrophe seems to be preferred to the anguish of waiting...
...Paul V. McNutt of Indiana, Socialist Norman Thomas, refused to pay to have them broadcast. ¶ Voted to oppose "war and military training," but turned down a resolution condemning the Reserve Officers Training ¶ Censured the school boards of Valhalla N. Y., Alexandria, Ind., Corunna, Mich., Lock Haven State Teachers College, Pa. for "unwarranted" dismissal of teachers. ¶ Elected not confident Superintended Holmes but Superintendent Orville Clyde Pratt of Spokane, Wash., as NEA's president for 1936-37. Big, solemn, bespectacled President-elect Pratt, at 55 ai authority on school finance, has kept Spokane's School Board firmly...