Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II was also the beginning of the end for U.S. education's traditional freedom from Federal control. In the postwar years, schools were unprepared to handle the demobilization of youth from war and war industry because: 1) their plans were incomplete; 2) they were poorly organized, understaffed, overworked; 3) local funds were meagre; 4) the Federal Government did not act to aid the states-and all attempts to have it do so were blocked by citizens who feared that Federal aid would necessarily bring with it Federal control...
...result: to meet a deepening crisis of postwar reconversion, Washington organized the National Bureau of Youth Service. NBYS took youths out of the labor market, put them in well-subsidized schools. By 1936 NBYS was so powerful that the national administration was using it for political campaign purposes; it was an open secret that Washington censored its teaching and its texts. There were no real centers of resistance left...
...this chilling prophecy Philadelphia's Superintendent of Schools Alexander J. Stoddard based the high points of his keynote address to 2,500 delegates at the influential National Vocational Assembly's annual convention in Philadelphia last week. The prophecy's source: Education for All American Youth, recently released by the National Education Association's potent Educational Policies Commission, of which Dr. Stoddard is chairman. Product of two years' study, steered by such educators as Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and U.S. Education Commissioner John W. Studebaker, the report persuasively argues that: 1) local control...
During vacations the boys carry seeds, plants and knowledge back to their parents' farms. One Nicaraguan youth took a look at his father's rice field. "No, papa," he said sternly, "agriculture is not like this any more...
...brilliant youth, the one English novelist that young Henry James of New York, Albany, Newport and Boston admired was George Eliot. He studied her works, wrote essays about her, sent her autographed copies of his first two books. When, at 26, he went to England to live, in 1869, he was taken to visit her as solemnly as a promising recruit led into the presence of the general. It was a doleful experience. George Eliot sat glum and uncommunicative, old, cold, heavy and slow. The only sign of life she showed was when James was leaving. Then she said...