Sentences with phrase «vertical penmanship»
In any case, according to Diane Ravitch, who is probably America's leading historian of education, vertical penmanship probably wasn't any worse than a lot of other panaceas offered since — particularly panaceas offered in recent times.
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A century ago, the superintendent of schools in New York, William Henry Maxwell, heaped scorn on one theorist who proclaimed «vertical penmanship» to be the solution to all ills.
A few years later, William Henry Maxwell, the esteemed superintendent of schools in New York City, heaped scorn on educational theorists who promoted their panaceas to gullible teachers; one, he said, insisted that «vertical penmanship» was the answer to all problems; another maintained that recess was a «relic of barbarism.»