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Banned from North Carolina schools last week was a fifth-grade history (Jule B. Warren's North Carolina Yesterday and Today) adopted last winter by ex-Governor Clyde R. Hoey's administration and recently denounced by scholars (TIME, April 28). An investigator appointed by Governor J. M. Broughton found more than 1,000 factual errors in the book...
...ourselves by the use of money." If democracy is to survive, children must study the elements of economics. He persuaded his fellow school committeemen to try his plan. Last February, in Boston's 42 intermediate schools, some 7,000 pupils began to learn the meaning of consumption (seventh grade), production (eighth), conservation, and industrial relations (ninth). A more advanced course for tenth-grade (second year high school) students will start next year...
First stumbling block for Boston's 180 grade-school economics teachers was the lack of texts. Joe Lee wanted a subjective course revolving around the pupil's personal place in the world of money, not an objective course of simplified jargon and theory. In charge of the project was small, mild Eleanore Elizabeth Hubbard, professor of history at Boston Teachers College, a grade-school teacher herself for 26 years. Miss Hubbard solved the problem by holding weekly conferences with teachers, exchanging ideas for classroom models, graphs, cartoons, games...
Last week's exhibition at the Boston school committee's Beacon Street building was a public show of classroom work done by the children. Notable was the ease with which moppets grasped economic and quasi-economic ideas, illustrated them with graphic charts and pictures. Examples: > An eighth-grade crayon drawing of an automobile, with tabs that pull out to illustrate the various farm products used in manufacturing a car. > Cartoon "movie" strips of manufacturing processes, from raw material to finished goods. > A play, The Loan Shark, demonstrating possibilities of fraud in loan transactions. > Home budgets worked...
Against the Army's new requirement of the equivalent of a fourth-grade education in its men, Second-Grader Alvin C. York, 53, No. 1 hero of World War I, protested...