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President Johnson has apointed John K. Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, and James B. Conant '14 President Emeritus, to the National Advisory Council on the anti-poverty program...
...University of Iowa. Even though the exams are tougher than a decade ago, and even though seven times as many students (1,500,000 this year) are taking them, scores on the formidable College Entrance Boards have stayed up-thus revealing how quickly excellence has attained depth. James B. Conant, whose The American High School Today, published in 1959, became the bible of reform, is dumfounded. Last week, addressing an N.E.A. convention of secondary school principals in Miami, he happily confessed that "writing about American education is almost as breathtaking as writing about international politics. Before a book...
...There's no question," says Conant, "that the American public is now more in favor of tough, rough standards for those who can take it." Many high schools now require five courses a semester, not four. Hardly a high school exists without some sort of enriched academic program for gifted students. For super-nourishment, students can take advanced-placement exams, which may land them in the sophomore class at college and will at least eliminate the necessity of taking certain freshman courses. In 1955, when the College Entrance Examination Board introduced advanced-placement exams, 12,000 students from...
...backed him up in his battles with Congress, Lilienthal decided to resign in 1950. His last important act in office was to oppose the crash program to build the hydrogen bomb. Along with most of the members of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, including Robert Oppenheimer, James Conant, Lee DuBridge and Enrico Fermi, Lilienthal objected to the bomb because he felt that the U.S. was relying too heavily on nuclear weapons and massive retaliation. He was also hopeful (but not very) that some agreement could be made with Russia not to build...
Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Faculty of Education and a member of the panel, described the book in his comment to the "Review" as "significant because, written by Conant, it will be read; and significant in that it identifies clearly the power structure within education which affects teacher education...