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Professor of Anthropology Theodore C. Bestor, who teaches Foreign Cultures 84, “Tokyo,” says the fund may help support his interest in developing a trip to Tokyo based on the class...
...away with the Academic Council, which had played a part in forming university policy. To some faculty-men, Stout seemed not only highhanded; he also seemed a threat to academic standards. Especially critical was Biologist Frank Richardson, who in 1952 circulated among his colleagues an article by Historian Arthur Bestor Jr. attacking the brand of educational thinking that President Stout appeared to represent (TIME, June 15, 1953). To Stout, Richardson's act was the climax of a long record of insubordination. After a brief hearing, the five-man Board of Regents sacked Professor Richardson...
...speeches and articles, Clapp has been doing his best to remedy the situation. But at the same time, so have such like-minded critics as Historian Arthur Bestor (Educational Wastelands], Botanist Harry J. Fuller of the University of Illinois, and free-lance Writer Mortimer Smith (And Madly Teach). Last summer the various critics announced that they had at last got together to form the Council for Basic Education...
...solution Bestor suggests is nothing less than "a drastic change in the traditional grade structure," revolving around a dual grouping of students-by chronological and mental...
After U.S. schools are released "from the straitjacket of their present grade structure," says Bestor, comprehensive, essay-type examinations should be restored as "the basic means of evaluating educational preparations and measuring educational achievement." Comprehensive testing, he says, is the answer to at least one big problem: how to give the best education to bright but needy pupils. It is an injustice to charge both the dull and the bright pupil the same college tuition, because one is potentially more valuable to society than the other. Bestor would bill everyone for full tuition, but reduce the bill on the basis...