Education: Trouble at T. C.

No. 1 teacher-training institution and most potent single influence in U. S. public education for some 30 years has been Columbia University's Teachers College. One of its most original ideas is its seven-year-old New College, an experimental undergraduate institution, which sends its students to get a liberal education in factories, on North Carolina farms, in Europe.

Two years ago educators began to hear of strange happenings at famed Teachers College. At a memorable faculty meeting, professorial sympathizers with the college's striking cafeteria workers were tongue-lashed by quick-tempered, conservative Dean William Fletcher Russell....

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