Word: overcrowdedness
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third-rate education in overcrowded, ram shackle schools. This documentary focuses on the painstaking three-year fight by plain citizens of Virginia's Arlington County to get better public education for their children. By glossing over their opposition (real-estate interests, a cynical political machine), the film passes up...
Tentative plans have been made to help at least three groups: the "Hot Universitaire Alsyfonds" an organization set up in Holland to help students fleeing from Eastern finish their education in Holland's Universities; The Scuola Citta Pestalozzi, an experimental school in Florence's most overcrowded and poorest districts for...
The switchover from military to civilian rule was a hectic experience for the people on occupation duty. U.S. occupation headquarters, which had moved from Berlin to Frankfurt in August, was in turmoil. One by one, General Lucius Clay's top men had resigned; personnel had been slashed from 2...
Men with Shovels. Siam's people had reason to be cheerful. Since the middle of the 18th Century their country has been free from foreign rule (except for the Japanese occupation during World War II). The Siamese feel no smoldering resentment against any former colonial masters, are also happy...
With Josiah Holbrook's example in mind, 28 well-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...