Reading at Home
The opening of school this fall·confronted the public with many thorny problems. In some areas it is busing, in others it is controversial textbooks, and in still others…
Category: Education
Sexist Mischief in Schools and Colleges — September 1975
Has Education Lost Its Purpose? — September 1975
Child Services Bill
In a moment of rare candor, former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey once called the teachers’ lobby the most powerful single lobby in the United States. It…
TV Violence
Mark Twain is usually credited with the expression, “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” The same complaint might be voiced about the subject…
Theories of Creation
Many newspaper articles and television segments in the past few weeks have marked the fiftieth anniversary of the famous Scopes trial in Tennessee — that dramatic courtroom confrontation…
Ashe and James
The happiest black man at Wimbledon, England, was not Arthur Ashe. It was 76-year old Richard Hudlin, the high school tennis coach who brought Ashe to St. Louis…
Census Report
Sometimes news events of the most far-reaching consequences appear in newspapers only in inconspicuous stories on the back pages. One such little-noticed item was the recent U.S. Census…
Malpractice Suits
What this country needs is fewer malpractice suits against doctors and a start of suits against malpracticing educators and politicians. The American taxpayers have generously given enormous sums…
National Science Foundation
There is a certain group of Congressmen who have become super-solicitous about every dollar of defense expenditures. They are unwilling to accept the recommendations of our military experts,…