Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teachers, parents and students all took a hand in running the schools. Because the problems of no two communities were exactly alike, each school had to chart its own road. Teachers, no longer able to discharge their duties by assigning lessons from a textbook and listening to recitations, had to learn their job all over again. Says Author Aikin: "The teacher has always had the leading role in schools everywhere. In democracy's high school his part becomes even more important. He does not merely play his assigned part; he helps select the play and is concerned with...
Upshot. The 30 schools proposed these prime objectives for U.S. high-school education: 1) every student should learn to read, write and speak the English language with skill and understand mathematics; 2) cut-&-dried textbook teaching should give way to teaching about the problems of modern living; 3) the concerns of U.S. youth should be the heart of the curriculum; 4) the schools should promote students' physical, mental and emotional health; 5) their "one clear central purpose" should be "to bring to every young American his great heritage of freedom . . . inspire devotion to human welfare...
...Readings in Military German," the course's textbook, consists of articles taken from recent German Military and Naval publications as well as articles on the use of Air Forces. The reading matter contains reports on the recent campaigns in Poland and France and is the most recent text on its subject...
...Bismarck, a wool afghan, a Shriner's hat, silk scarves, gloves, ties, socks, a sweater, a towel bearing the Union Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles, a textbook on navigation, a lawbook, The Book of Mormon, a set of Indian arrowheads, a turkey's wishbone (the V-symbol), an autographed picture of Jack Dempsey and a carton of skin lotion, a couple of soap dishes, a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt done on a typewriter...
...completion of which an individual receives a First Aid Certificate. Anyone, especially for those who have already taken Air Raid Warden course. Tuesday 7:30-9:30 10 Tuesday, Jan. 13 Harvard Union Mrs. Wise, 12 University Hall, Kir. 7600, Line 36 Advanced registration necessary. The cost of textbook and bandages used in the course is $1.00, which should be brought to the first meeting. Anyone Thursday 7:30-9:30 10, Thursday, Jan. 15 Harvard Union Anyone Monday 7:30-9:30 10, Monday, Jan. 19 Harvard Union Mrs. Wise, 12 University Hall, Kir. 7600, Line 36. Anyone Wednesday...