Postwar Education of Negroes: Educational Implications of Army Data and Experiences of Negro Veterans and War Workers

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Federal Security Agency, U.S. Office of Education, 1945 - 71 páginas
 

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Página 25 - There is nothing in the title of the Army test that says anything about native intelligence. It is a classification test. Its purpose is to classify soldiers into categories, according to how ready they are to pick up soldiering — how likely they are to learn easily the facts, skills, and techniques necessary for carrying out Army...
Página 45 - Resolution 74: A Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of the Educational and Physical Fitness of the Civilian Population as Related to National Defense; Statement of Thomas Parran, Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service.
Página 45 - Includes (1) registrants with more than one disqualifying defect who were rejected for educational deficiency prior to June 1, 1943; (2) registrants rejected for failure to meet minimum intelligence standards beginning June 1, 1943; (3) morons, imbeciles, and idiots rejected] November, 1940November, 1944.
Página 67 - ... 6. The right to come and go, to speak or to be silent, free from the spyings of secret political police; 7. The right to equality before the law, with equal access to justice in fact ; 8. The right to education, for work, for citizenship, and for personal growth and happiness; and 9. The right to rest, recreation, and adventure; the opportunity to enjoy life and take part in an advancing civilization.
Página 56 - While the first thought must be given to the veteran disabled in service, the health needs of the great body of veterans who will not have incurred injuries in the service are also a very real responsibility of the American people. In the postwar period, veterans of this and previous wars will constitute a large and important segment of the population. The number may well be 20,000,000, or one in every seven of the total population; veterans with their families may comprise from one-third to one-half...
Página 45 - Selective Service System, national headquarters, chart: Estimated Principal Causes for Rejection of Registrants 18-37 Years of Age in Class IV-F and Classes with "F
Página 56 - We have known that 1 out of 22 at the age ot 15 would some day be a patient in a mental institution. We have known that somewhere around 65 percent of the illness confronting general medical practice was neuropsychiatric. We have known that 50 percent of the patients in hospitals are in hospitals for serious mental disorder and that the other half is blessed with a high percentage of milder cases, but we have had neither the science, nor facilities, nor process to deal with this in a preventive way....
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Página 43 - USE OF TRAINING AIDS IN THE ARMED SERVICES SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR CIVILIAN EDUCATION OF THE USE OF AIDS AND DEVICES IN THE TRAINING PROGRAMS OF THE ARMED SERVICES A Report of the Committee on Military Training Aids and Instructional Materials BULLETIN 1945, NO.
Página 43 - ... practices for adaptation to civilian use could not be found, or if proof of practices whose civilian use has been limited could not be established. Basis of Service Training Programs The training programs of the Army and the Navy have been based upon three points of approach: (1) The utilization of scientific testing and classification procedures whereby the skills and aptitudes of each serviceman are determined and used as a basis for his assignment to duty and to training; (2) the utilization...

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