"Members of the Communist Party of the United States should not be employed as teachers."
This sentence, included in one of the most significant statements on U.S. education in a decade, made big headlines last week for a report on American Education and International Tensions, published by the Educational Policies Commission* of the National Education Association.
It was the first time such a major group of U.S. educators had called for the total exclusion of Communists from teaching. The recommendation was not made without reservation: "At the same time we condemn the careless, incorrect, and unjust use of such words as 'Red'...
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