American Decades
Awards
TEACHER OF THE YEAR
1952: Geraldone Wheldon Jones—First Grade Hope Public School, Santa Barbara, California
1953: Dorthy Hamilton—Social Studies Milford High School, Milford, Connecticut
1954: Willard Wideberg—Seventh Grade Dekalb Junior High School, Dekalb, Illinois
1955: Margaret Perry—Fourth Grade Monmouth Elementary, Monmouth, Oregon
1956: Richard Nelson—Science Flathead Country High School, Kalispell, Montana
1957: Eugene G. Bizzell—Speech, English and Debate A. N. McCallum High School, Austin, Texas, and Mary F. Schwartz—Third Grade Bristol Elementary, Kansas City, Missouri
1958: Jean Listebarger Humphrey—Second Grade Edwards Elementary, Ames, Iowa
1959: Edna Donley—Mathematics and Speech Alva High School, Alva, Oklahoma
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1950's Education
- Overview
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Topics in the News
- Adult Education
- Church vs. State
- Curricula
- Desegregating Education
- John Dewey and Progressive Education
- Drafting College Students
- Federal Funding for Education
- Great Books Program
- Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth
- National Defense Education Act of 1958
- Office of Education and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (Hew)
- President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School
- Quality in Education?
- Funding the Future Through R and D
- The "Red Scare" in Education
- Report Cards
- School Dropouts
- School Shortages
- Teachers
- Television's Effect on Education
- U.S. vs. Soviet Schools
- White House Conference on Education
- Why Johnny Can't Read
- Headline Makers
- People in the News
- Awards
- Deaths
- Publications
- Important Events in Education, 1950–1959
