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Molly and Me (Grade Fields, Monty Woolley; TIME, April...
Through lucid pamphlets written by outside experts, I.C.S. teaches close to 2,000 subjects in some 400 courses, ranging from third-grade arithmetic to shipbuilding. The courses cost the students $60 to $200. Revising and expanding them costs I.C.S. up to $200,000 a year...
...included graduates of the University of Hard Knocks as well as Ph.D.s and a Rhodes Scholar. Of its students, the 5,000,000th is fairly typical: Staff Sergeant Joseph F. Webster, of Connersville, Ind., is 25 (average student age: 27), has finished high school (average level is eighth grade), is married and about to become a father (students average one child), and most decidedly has a full-time job (over 97% of I.C.S. students are employed...
Molly and Me (Grade Fields, Monty Woolley; TIME, April...
...recently set up a National Teachers Division of its State, County and Municipal Workers of America). As public servants, teachers are not protected by the Wagner Act. In Covington, Ky., a Kentucky colonel who had taught a high-school class for 17 years was demoted recently to a fourth-grade job largely because of his A.F.T. activities. In Arlington Heights, Ill., 14 of a total of 28 teachers have been fired or asked to resign in the last year for the same reason...