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Schools: Opening Up Prince Edward

The 1,700 Negro children of Virginia's Prince Edward County, mostly unschooled for four years because bitter-end segregationists closed down the public...

Public Schools: High Cost of Stinginess

Jacksonville, commercial center of Florida's Duval County, wears all the badges of a prosperous city in a space-age state: bustling expressways, glass-skinned...

Public Schools: Making Math & Science Soar

How can a high school get its brain-busting math and science courses off the ground and make them soar through the students' minds? The Atlanta public schools...

Schools: New Curator for the Fellows

Since 1938, some 300 selected newsmen have left their beats to spend a thoughtful academic year at Harvard, taking whatever courses appealed to them. These...

Obiter Dicta: Religion in the Schools

For all those people who have been sincerely disturbed by Supreme Court decisions forbidding the recitation of state-prescribed prayers in public schools,...

Prep Schools: Taft's Third

To tell one New England prep school from another is "sometimes terribly difficult," says Taft's Headmaster Paul F. Cruikshank. But the name of his small (360...

Schools: It Pays to Desegregate

When the 1964 Civil Rights Act empowered the Government to stop aid to school administrations refusing to sign a desegregation pledge, many Southerners were...

Public Schools: The Trouble Is Teachers

A U.S. history teacher in Indiana says that she hates to teach the Grover Cleveland period — the time of civil-service reform, the Interstate Commerce Act, the...

Public Schools: Common-Sense Compromise

PUBLIC SCHOOLS If endowed by Providence with the right to perform one solitary, spectacular miracle, most school boards in Northern U.S. cities would use it to...

Education: Bad Apples for Teacher

New York City's decision last fall to fingerprint prospective teachers brought a yelp of "undignified" from the city's Teachers Union. Last week the city's chief...

Education: Abandon Parochial Schools?

Msgr. George W. Casey, 65, is a Boston Irish Catholic who looks on the folklore of Boston Irish Catholics just about the way that a small boy with a pin looks on...

Education: The Vanishing Teacher

Will flesh-and-blood teachers eventually be replaced by audio-visual gadgets? At the convention in Cincinnati last week of the National Education Association's...

National Affairs: More Schools, Less Smog

"I don't want to have everyone get the idea I'm a one-issue guy," said California's Democratic Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown last week. "My administration has...

Education: Teacher's Crime (Contd.)

When Elementary School Teacher Minnie Lee Baskin was bulldozed into resigning (TIME, March 3), no one in rural Lakeland, Ga. thought that she would ever teach...

The Hemisphere: Church v. Schools

The American high schools in the Colombian cities of Bogotá, Barranquilla and Cali, run by U.S. and Colombian Protestants, are among the country's best. But...

Education: Boom in Military Schools

U.S. military schools are crowded, while civilian colleges report enrollment losses as high as 21% this term. Delegates of the Association of Military Colleges...

Education: Color in the Classroom

Are the pupils gloomy, nervous, inattentive? Does the teacher complain of eyestrain? It may be the classroom's "schoolhouse-brown" paint. Last week New York's...

Education: M. O. T. for Schools

U.S. schools and colleges now awn some 15,000 sound-film projectors. Last week the MARCH OF TIME was distributing to them the first issues of its new Forum Edi...

Education: Teacher's Pay

After five years as a New Jersey schoolteacher, Edward M. Hough, 28, took one more look at his five-day job—at $74 a week—and decided that he was through. He...