Keeping Taft’s Memory Alive

In American secondary schools there are some 105,000 teachers of the social studies. Of these teachers, few have taken in college more than an introductory course in political science. The level of high-school instruction in politics is correspondingly low, at the average school.

Despite very limited resources, the Taft Institute, in its five years of existence, has conducted lengthy seminars attended by some 1,200 social studies teachers, who teach annually about 150,- 000 high school students. Colleges, public school systems, and civic organizations have cooperated in holding these seminars, usually in the summers. So far, the following universities and colleges have participated: the University of Cincinnati, the University of Rochester, the University of Louisville, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, Fisk University, Macalester College, C. W. Post College, and Pepperdine College.

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In American secondary schools there are some 105,000 teachers of the social studies. Of these teachers, few have taken in college more than an introductory course in political science. The level of high-school instruction in politics is correspondingly low, at the average school.

Despite very limited resources, the Taft Institute, in its five years of existence, has conducted lengthy seminars attended by some 1,200 social studies teachers, who teach annually about 150,- 000 high school students. Colleges, public school systems, and civic organizations have cooperated in holding these seminars, usually in the summers. So far, the following universities and colleges have participated: the University of Cincinnati, the University of Rochester, the University of Louisville, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, Fisk University, Macalester College, C. W. Post College, and Pepperdine College.