Word: reform
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spaulding Asks School Reform...
...Another reform which lies in the direction of the "expanding horizons" of public education is the employment of teachers who are broadly trained by practical contact with the world and who are thus equipped to teach subjects "far from respectable in terms of purely academic standards," Dean Spaulding said, asserting that many of the school teachers today have gone into the profession "in order to escape the pressure of supposedly more practical callings...
...Britain's handicaps in war with totalitarian Germany is Britain's traditional democratic tolerance. She tolerates pacifists, conscientious objectors, Communists; also those liberal-minded gentlemen who see the war, not primarily as a desperate crisis demanding united will-to-win, but rather as an opportunity for social reform. Last week a group of liberals who put the war before social reform struck back at their Communist critics...
...Gluecks' next step was to examine the records of boys who reformed, pick out their prevailing characteristics. They found that boys with more intelligence and a more favorable home environment were most likely to straighten out. Eventually they found that the most reliable signs were: 1) parents' nationality and religion, 2) the age at which a boy committed his first offense. Most likely to reform, say the Gluecks, is a boy who did not misbehave until he was 13 and is the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia, Poland or Lithuania. Least likely is a boy who misbehaved...
...Deal reform, but a ghost of Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom. When San Francisco got Federal permission to build Hetch Hetchy (in a national park), the enabling Raker Act made the condition that Hetch Hetchy power should never fall for resale into the hands of a private corporation. Claiming at first that their deal was an emergency measure, later that it was not a resale but an agency contract, the city and P. G. & E. managed to avoid the gaze of Secretary of Interior Hubert Work, drew a warning from Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, finally fell afoul...