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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Chicago the Sun-Times's Education Editor Ruth Dunbar roves a beat that in recent years has encompassed Russia and the Far East, produced effective stories on the public-education systems in the Soviet Union, Korea and Japan. Helen Fleming, of the Chicago Daily News, writes with such telling effect on the local education scene that, after a series observing that the Chicago school system made only seven of 16 basic high-school courses compulsory, and questioning the latitude this left the student, the school board added four more courses to the compulsory list. In Los Angeles...
Retiring the Hacks. It used to be that the journalist assigned to education ranked somewhere below the real estate editor and above the chief copy...
When Benjamin Fine, who spent 17 years as the New York Times education editor before moving last year to the North American Newspaper Alliance, first hit the Times for a job, City Editor David H. Joseph told him there were no "reporting jobs" open-but took Fine on as an education writer. Recalls the New York Herald Tribune's Terry Ferrer: "In the early days, most of the papers used women who would be sent out on education stories when they weren't busy on society. A lot of stuff was passed off as education reporting when...
...education reporter no longer looks at the schoolroom picture windows or handsome parquet floors shown off by proud principals; instead, he is interested in the teachers and the students. After the first Russian Sputnik restimulated interest in education in 1957, says Education Editor Richard Philbrick of the Chicago Tribune, there "was a sudden increase in interest in the curriculum and the scholastic standards. The newspapers merely reflected this change in emphasis...
...still moving too slowly and doing too inadequate a job," said Paul Swens-son, managing editor of the Minneapolis Star, last week. "We have shown a willingness to expand manpower, devote more space and tackle the complex side-the philosophy rather than just the business -of education. But we're still not ready for the big problems of the 1960s." What seems certain, in the light of continuing improvements, is that the new breed of education reporter will get ready...