POINTS IN THE WORK OF THE HIGH SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK CITY Issued each month of the school year to all teachers in the High Schools of the City of New York. Published by the Board of Education, 110 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York. Books concerned with educational matters may be sent for review to Mr. A. H. Lass, Fort Hamilton High School. Shore Road and Eighty-third Street, Brooklyn, New York. School textbooks will not be reviewed. The columns of HIGH POINTS are open to all teachers, supervising and administrative officers of the high schools. Manuscripts not accepted for publication are not returned to contributors unless return is requested. All contributions should be typewritten, double spaced, on paper 8" by 11". They may be given to the school representative or sent directly to the editor. Brooklyn Automotive Trades HENRY AHEARN Central Needle Trades. MILTON DICKMAN East New York Vocational ELIZABETH DOBBINS Jamaica Vocational.....ANNE R. LAWRIE Food Trades Vocational. MARY K. GANLEY Jane Adams Vocational. MARY A. RIORDAN Chelsea Vocational..MILDRED C. PASCALE Machine and Metal Trades High School MARGARET ROBERTSON Manhattan Aviation Trades JAMES NAIDICH Manhattan Women's Garment Trades RUTH G. MINSKY Metropolitan Vocational. FRANK H. PAINE McKee Vocational...... .MARY SEESTED Murray Hill Building and Metal Trades MORRIS J. DEUTCH New York Industrial....BENJAMIN STERN New York Printing.....JoHN J. HASSETT Queens Vocational....MARCELLA NOVOTNY Industrial Art......S. ALEXANDER SHEAR Yorkville Women's Service Trades ...... FREDA L. ALEXANDER Samuel Gompers............. HARRY SHEFTER Brooklyn Women's Garment Trades NORMA ROMER Central Commercial. CATHERINE B. DWYER Woodrow Wilson Vocational DAVID L. GOLDWYN LOBSENZ .BESSIE LEHRMAN Cover by Morris Brodis and Layout by the Art Department of the Abraham Lincoln High School Design for Evaluation for High School.... W. Wrightstone 27 The Junior High School Teachers and the Curriculu.......................................... The Use of Motion Pictures to Develop Better Human Relations 39 HERBERT M. CHAIMAS Fort Hamilton High School Race conflict is a Trojan horse which neither global war nor global peace can afford. It is the device by which Nazism prepared the world for its ravages, and which it hopes will yet help it win the peace even though it will lose the war. Though not all Germans supported antiSemitism, all the German people and even other nations found the yoke of Nazism on them. In America, discrimination and race riots threaten those who compose the mythical majority, as well as minorities. We are engaged in two wars-at home and abroad. To win the war now, as soon as possible, and to avert an American form of fascism later, an offensive against racism is as important as the production and fighting fronts. We, as educators, have a singular opportunity to carry on this offensive against race-hatred. To us the development of the attitudes and habits of our coming citizens is entrusted. We are charged with the obligation to achieve in our students social understanding and social behavior. Only then can we assure cooperation and justice. As one with parents, we constitute the keystone of democratic structure and security. When we win this war, we will have one world; but whether that world will be slave or free depends considerably on what we, as educators, do. The Biologists and Anthropologists State the Facts BLOOD DOESN'T TELL. No matter to which part of the world a person might go, he would find his blood relation there, regardless of skin color, head shape, nose shape or any other characteristic. There are the same four blood types in all races-O, A, B, and AB. Members of a family may very likely have different types of blood. Since blood from different races cannot be distinguished microscopically, chemically, and immunologically, hospitals that are supported by New York City are required to make transfusions on the basis of type and not race. "BLOOD INHERITANCE" IS A MYTH. People receive injec * This article was read by Professor Otto Klineberg of Columbia University. The facts here stated on race and race differences are approved by him as correct. |