Education: Report Card

¶ Fighting a "socialistic" bill to make Montana teachers eligible for U.S. social-security benefits, State Senator B. Reid Taylor (R.) declared that "children would be better off with high-school graduates teaching them than with [women] who go to a four-year teachers' college determined to remain teachers and old maids the rest of their lives."

¶ In Atlanta, some 200 representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People adopted a strong resolution setting next September as the target date for desegregation of schools in the Southeast (Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., N.C., S.C., Term.). Added the N.A.A.C.P.: "We are not alarmed...

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