Word: substandard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known U.S. men & women had started a new organization called the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools. Some of the problems with which the commission will concern itself, and try to concern others, are overcrowded classrooms, the shortage of trained teachers, the millions of children who are getting substandard schooling and the confusion in educational goals. The worst problem of all, in the commission's view: in spite of all the efforts of the parent-teacher associations, the public is still doing too little to help...
Over the years, the editors met frequently, debated what to do about words of prejudice, such as nigger and kike (nigger got in, with the crisp warning: "A substandard term"). Finally, the most specialized new words went out to consulting experts for definition. One of the new dictionary's "youngest" definitions (written by Historian Hans Kohn of Smith College): iron curtain-"a barrier created by censorship, prohibition of free travel, etc , to isolate Russian-controlled territory from outside contact...
Communism-U.S. Brand was the fifth in an irregular series of documentaries produced by ABC, all under the supervision of Saudek. Others so far: Schoolteacher-1047 (in three parts) on public education; Slums (in two parts) on substandard housing; 1960? Jiminy Cricket, on America's future needs and resources; and VD, on the problem of social diseases. Saudek's next for ABC: The Marshall Plan, a ¹½hour television documentary scheduled for fall. Says Saudek: "I hope it will be completely compelling...
Installed as Dunbar's new director, Campbell promptly fired all 16 teachers as substandard, gathered a white and Negro faculty of 74 to help him build a bigger & better high school. He set up 23 tough vocational courses, begged or borrowed $2,000,000 worth of machines and equipment. School enrollment has jumped from 125 pupils to 1,650 (400 of them Negro war veterans...
...Detroit "the situation ... is now worse than it has ever been," according to Housing Director James Inglis. He said that 46,000 families were living in "substandard conditions," that 37,360 more were doubling...