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...Arkansas, now bought (by a wealthy Faubus backer, for $50,900) and relabeled: Senior High School-Little Rock Private School Corp. Newly titled School Superintendent W. C. Brashears (a former elementary school principal) announced a solid-sounding curriculum ("four years" of English, Arkansas and American history, applied mathematics, algebra, chemistry, physics, etc.), by week's end had registered 241 seniors and 498 juniors and sophomores. Only trouble: there were just barely enough teachers and classrooms to start instruction for the seniors (juniors were promised classes this week in two hurriedly purchased warehouses, but there is no immediate prospect...
...Paul's last week, Abdie made friends quickly. He will study general science, French, English, Latin and algebra. But what he likes best is to read, and St. Paul's library stacks made his eyes pop. Ambitious and happy, Abdallah now wants to become Moroccan Ambassador to Washington "because," he quips, "I'm weak in mathematics...
...that city--and in at least five others throughout the state--all students are required to take two years of algebra, one of plane geometry, one of general science, and one of general biology...
...seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the first three academic years were devoted to studying Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. In addition, freshmen studied arithmetic; sophomores, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry; juniors, natural science; and seniors, ethics and philosophy. Oratory and some history were taught all classes, and the textbooks were written in either Latin or Greek...
Additional courses, though, will not alter the quality of the subjects already taught. Public high school courses are geared to the average student. At many schools, the gifted learner is placed in accelerated classes. Horace Mann has this accelerated program in algebra and plane geometry--an arrangement which might profitably be extended to other subjects...