Your Children Your Schools Radio Selections Questioned
A reader asks how families choose radio programs and urges thoughtful listening beyond entertainment. The piece contrasts sedative versus stimulant effects, discusses margins of listening, and suggests involving children in selecting quality noncommercial programs. It notes 4 to 8 pm as key home listening hours and references WILMETTE LIFE school pages for program ideas.
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Chicago
New York
Wilmette Life
Educational disparities expose cost effect on Illinois schools
An 1938 E A study finds that high per pupil spending correlates with longer terms, broader curricula, better teaching, and more resources. Eight high spenders outperform eight low spenders in facilities, supplies, and instructional materials. eight median schools fall in between. Low cost schools show weaker heating lighting ventilation desks and equipment and reduced physical programs.
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Illinois
Teaching Social Studies By Means of Activities Told
Katherine L. Julian describes a sixth grade social studies program focused on understanding social relationships and group responsibility. Students choose topics like art music architecture and transportation and study from Prehistoric man onward using projects maps models ditto copies and class discussions to share learning.
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Central School
Katherine L. Julian
Barbara_ Kieft
Marjorie Johnson
Martha Merrifield
Analysis of Educational Disparities in Expenditure Levels
The study notes higher spending in upper level schools compared with lower level ones. It reports less focus on individual differences and recreation, and cites poorer trained teachers. Tests show lower group students lagging by one to two years in reading arithmetic language geography. Extreme medians indicate gaps up to four to five years in reading geography language.
Spring Comes to Library Dust Off Poetry Books
The Wilmette public library displays poetry in the Children’s room with new and old favorites. Featured titles include Child's Garden of Verse, Fifty Poems, Forty Singing Seamen, Hollow Reed, and More Silver Pennies.
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Wilmette Public Library
Child’s Garden
R. L. Stevenson
R. Benet
Alfred Noyes
M. J. J. Wrinn
H. W. Longfellow
B. J. Thompson
Radio Poems By Bob Clarke
A fifth grade unit on inventions yields poems about the radio. The verses describe radios of different sizes and colors, how voices travel, and a wish for one at home, with a child’s wishful line about saving money for shoes. The speaker notes a radio elf speaker in one line.
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Bob Clarke
The Radio by Herbert Stein
The radio pieces celebrate announcers with wings and global voices. A playful sketch notes ads for Tums and features Charlie the Tightwad Bergen, who mocks price sensitivity with a brave, comic stance.
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Herbert Stein
Charlie
Tightwad Bergen
Edison Light Invention Reaches Night and Day Use
Edison invented the electric light enabling sight at night and during cloudy days. Observers praise the invention as a great breakthrough now aiding daily life and extended activities.
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Jim Myers
Edison
Boots and Brothers Sixth Grade Play Featured
On March 21 the junior assembly at Central school watched a fine sixth grade performance by Mrs. Julians class titled Boots and His Brothers. The acting was praised as truly excellent.
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Central School
Julian
Boots
Poems and travelers mix in a quiet page of notes
Poems from youth and classic authors fill the page with titles by St. V. Millay and Longfellow among others. Social notes record Mrs A F Biser of 423 Greenleaf avenue returning from a south trip via Louisville and Columbus with her daughter Virginia, a Ward Belmont student. Mr and Mrs Winslow Goodwin of 1710 Central avenue return from two months in St Petersburg Florida.
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A. F. Biser
Greenleaf Avenue
Louisville
Virginia
Ward Belmont College
Columbus
Ind
Winslow Goodwin
Central Avenue
St. Petersburg
Fla
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Janet Benge
Ruth Ratny
RADIO
Boots and Brothers
Nancy Shinnick
Junior Assembly
St. V. Millay
W. R. Benet
Eugene Field
Hilda Adams
Shropshire Lad
A. E. Houseman
Hiawatha
Preseli
Preseli Tabstets
Eedicituste
Seeity Eeesorcke
Mary Macleod
Walter de la Mare
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