Word: kindergarten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...road from nearby farms, most of them in overalls or slacks came Miss Campbell's pupils: the seven Sladek children, three Smiths, two Leonards, two Hotzes, Lorraine Stockman, Frances Mc-Namer, Bertilla Loventinsky and Doris Augustine. Total: 13 girls five boys. Ages: 4 to 14. Grades: primer (kindergarten) to seventh...
...Some are in the kindergarten stage and others are extremely advanced; all are serious in their work. The difficulties of a Chinese studying German in a class conducted in English are terrific," Cloud points...
...proposed many remedies, from Federal financial aid to more science in education. Most practical was Columbia University's Professor Karl N. Llewellyn, who suggested that educators find mass-production formulas that even mediocre teachers can use. Sample formula (to promote healthy skepticism): Let pupils be taught from the kindergarten to preface every "fact" thus: "My geography book says that Albany is the capital of New York"; "Mr. Smithers says that stealing is naughty"; "The Bugle says Japan is a menace"; "Candidate Loud says that Senator Louder is a liar...
...teachers marched to Board of Education headquarters on Park Avenue. And up & down before the Republican State Committee's offices in 42nd Street marched Charles Hinckley, 5, and Jill Hinckley, 3, leading a procession of 150 school children. Charles carried a sign: "WE WANT TO GO TO KINDERGARTEN." His followers chanted: "Republicans promised to protect our schools...
Lincoln School, a kindergarten-to-college private Progressive school, is operated by Columbia University's Teachers College. It was started in 1917 when Dr. Abraham Flexner, now director of the Institute for Advanced Study, and harvard's late, great Charles W. Eliot got G. E. B. to put up the money. Later G. E. B. gave Teachers College a $3,000,000 endowment to run Lincoln and a building to house it. Lincoln School became so exemplary an institution that many a bigwig, including John D. Rockefeller Jr., sent his children there. The thousands of teachers who came...