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...innovations-images of the future-depend on local control and local money. Few states really control curriculums except New York, with its 175-year-old Board of Regents (patterned on French education). And few states provide enough money. All the states together carry 40% of the total U.S. school budget, compared to 57% by local governments...
Although there have been few deeply noticeable effects of the steel strike thus far. signs of its impact on the economy are now beginning to appear. The Commerce Department reported that in July, manufacturers' shipments and new orders declined. Total adjusted manufacturing sales in July dropped to $30.8 billion, a decline of $400 million from June...
...Council for Financial Aid to Education (chaired by Irving S. Olds, former board chairman of U.S. Steel) reported this week that last year's corporate gifts to colleges were up 23.5% from 1956. Unrestricted gifts, the educators' favorite type, led the list with 34% of the total, and even a few red-ink companies kicked in. But the council hopes that corporate giving is still in its infancy. Donations to education by the sample companies amounted to only .27% of net income before taxes, said the council, and total corporate gifts, an estimated $136.5 million, amounted to only...
...date." Among them: a new course in vector calculus, a 25% increase in the basic physics course, a general shift in all engineering subjects "away from applied engineering to more of a basic science approach." In another innovation, Annapolis will credit 190 incoming middies this fall for a total of 316 college courses they took before entering the academy. The new students will move straight into advanced classes, later on they may earn the right to take "overload" electives in addition to their normal curriculum. Of this year's middies, 367 are signed up for overload courses, mostly...
...living standards is the steady rise in consumer spending, which has jumped $20 billion in the last year to its present record of $311 billion; consumer durable goods alone account for $44 billion. By next spring, consumer buying is expected to top $325 billion annually-as much as the total gross national product a decade ago. To spur the rise, personal income, up $20.6 billion in the past year, is expected to jump almost $20 billion in the next twelve months...