Mustering up the most urgent words it could find, the powerful National Education Association (341,000 members) had once called it "probably the most serious school situation now current in the nation." The N.E.A.'s words were not enough. A school-board battle which had aroused the citizens of North College Hill (a suburb of Cincinnati) went right on. Last week the N.E.A. moved into the arena again. For the first time in its history, the N.E.A. blacklisted a school system, and urged "all worthy members of the teaching profession" to stay away from North College Hill, Ohio.
The trouble started back in 1940, when...