Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week no one had ever looked lim right in the teeth. Last week U. S. teachers were examined physically and mentally, from toe to cerebellum. The National Education Association reported on the results of examining 5,150 teachers in every section of the U. S. The report Fit to Teach, painted this composite picture...
...educational opportunities. Hundreds of schools closed, thousands of rural children were entirely without schooling. The U. S. Government was forced to use emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile, the National Education Association had sponsored the Fletcher-Harrison Bill to appropriate first $100,000,000, later $300,000,000 a year, for education...
...first year, $140,000,000 the last) would go for elementary and secondary education, the rest for school building, training of teachers, adult education, State educational administration, rural libraries, educational research. The money would be distributed among the States according to their needs. Federal control of what the schools teach would be barred...
...cauliflower car. He attributes his success in this line to the fact that "I just didn't get hit enough." He is a strong advocate of scientific boxing, and dislikes the slugger type of fighter, because, "if you have a man who can win by slugging, and can teach him the art of boxing; then he'll end up practically unbeatable...
...unless you have a "specialty"-writing, for instance. (In Ross County the average income per family is $572; Farmer Smart's minimum budget is $3,000.) Plain farmers might deduce a somewhat different moral. What is needed, they may decide after reading R. F. D., is not to teach writers to farm, but to teach farmers to write bestsellers...