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This is necessary, Conant said, so that local boards may effectively exorcise responsibility for financing, selection of teachers, and adoption of textbooks and particular. He made his proposals in address before the National School board Association Convention in Boston...
...dozen or so boards," he said, "have responsibilities for so many people that to much proclaimed ideal of local responsibility is a myth." Conant suggested in states where there are one or more of such enormous districts, a state commission might be established to study the possibility of dividing the huge districts...
...significant contribution to shaping a nationwide educational policy would be made, Conant said, "If a large number of local boards went out of existence as a consequence of district consolidation...
...Faculty members who have been given life memberships in the Academy are, in addition to Bruner and Scheffier: Bernard Bailyn, professor of History; Robert Ulrich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education. Emeritus; David Riesman '31, Henry Ford 11 Professor of Social Sciences: and John B. Carroll, Roy Edward Larsen Professor of Educational Psychology...
Should a soft breeze slip into the library and lure the scholar away, in 1959 Roger Conant Hatch established two prizes for lyric poetry. And, lest equality become too democratic at Harvard, in 1924 Carl Schurz provided a prize for a student meriting the Wilder Prize but not deserving the financial...