Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty years ago most scholars graduated from U. S. schools and colleges had nothing tangible to show for it. To an Iowa country school teacher who knew a thing or two about psychology, that seemed an undesirable state of affairs. So he set up a shop in Maquoketa, Iowa and began to manufacture diplomas to symbolize academic accomplishment. Soon Mr. William Welch was turning out diplomas at a great rate.* When his plant burned down in 1914 it was a coast-to-coast newspaper story, for many of the nation's graduates had to be informed that they would...
...parents of some 26,000,000 U. S. public school children the all-important question as they send their youngsters to school each term is: Who will his teacher be? Parents well know that whether a school is Progressive or Traditional, palace or shack, a good teacher is still a good teacher and a poor one a menace to their children. To conscientious educators, who are everlastingly amazed that the same parents who insist on a fully qualified doctor will gamble on a teacher, improving the quality of the 1,000,000 U. S. teachers is the nation...
...alarming that Harvard's President James Bryant Conant last month devoted much of his annual report to it, the Rockefeller General Education Board gave $520,000 to a commission* to study it and throughout the land teacher training is undergoing an overhauling. Last week Cornell University launched a significant new teacher training plan...
...Teachers are worried. Teaching is so wearing and insecure (less than one-third have long-term tenure) that the average teacher lasts only eight to twelve years...
...American Council on Education's Commission on Teacher Education. With another G. E. B. grant, Progressive Education Association next summer will start ten summer workshops for teachers in universities from coast to coast...