THE trade news in a section such as Education is easy to find: a new school building program, the choice of a new college president. Harder to dig for, and requiring a spelunker's resourcefulness, is the kind of Education story that illumines the continuing process of growing and learning. Some recent examples are such TIME stories as Little Known--& Good, a look at 50 good small colleges; Campus Conservatives, the new political trend in the colleges; Go Everywhere, Young Man, the first broad description of the Peace Corps and its possibilities; Programed Learning, about the new teaching machines; and How Much Is a Nun Paid?, last week's analysis of how parochial schools finance themselves. This week's major effort, called The Education of the South, chronicles the interesting shift in Southern thinking since the Supreme Court ordered desegregation in the public schools.

All these stories are the work of Education Editor Robert Shnayerson, 34, who himself attended twelve schools as a child, ranging from extremely progressive to proper prep. He particularly recalls the four years he spent at now-defunct Manumit School at Pawling, N.Y., "a strange school on a farm. We drove trucks at nine years and plowed with tractors, slaughtered pigs and took care of the cows. But I didn't learn anything about anything." He joined the Navy at 17, for three wartime years in the North Atlantic,

Europe and the Mediterranean. After this came Dartmouth, class of '50, then LIFE. A TIME staff member since 1954, he became Education editor in April 1959, has written cover stories on James Conant and Clark Kerr. Among other reasons for being interested in Education, Shnayerson has two children, and his wife is a teacher.

THE best stories leave echoes behind, and do not die with the first telling. There are two examples in this week's TIME.

P: The first national report on the John Birch Society--the antediluvian secret society of political right-wingers--appeared in TIME March 10, and was read into the Congressional Record by North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton R. Young. There has been a headline furor almost ever since, with this week's installment reported in THE NATION.

P: The Metropolitan Opera's Soprano Leontyne Price, whose portrait was on the cover of the March 10 issue, has been undergoing the experience that happens to all cover subjects--the barrage of letters from readers all over the world. In a letter to Music Editor Richard Murphy, she said that most of the letters reflected "the feelings of kindness, dignity and respect that I myself felt on reading TIME'S cover story." Meanwhile, she has been scoring new triumphs at the Metropolitan Opera, reported this week in Music.

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