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...James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus, has issued a report urging junior high schools to give their students better preparation for high school. The report, released Saturday by the Educational Testing Service, includes the results of Conant's second major study of public education in America...
...report, entitled "Education in the Junior High School Years," Conant sharply criticizes schools which over emphasize athletics or pretentious academic ritual at the cost of basic intellectual skills. Problems Conant particularly emphasizes include: communities that bloat the importance of a junior high school "senior"; the inability of many ninth graders to read even at sixth grade level; lack of coordination between a community's junior and senior high schools; and frequently a lack of coordination between grades in the junior high school itself...
Originally, junior high schools required their students to study algebra and foreign languages in the seventh and eighth grades. Urging a partial return to this plan, Conant suggests that junior high schools institute "elite" classes...
...students should spend 60 to 70 per cent of their classroom time on "solid" academic subjects, Conant urges. Seventh and eighth grades should study English with stress on reading and composition, social science with stress on geography and history, and mathematics and general science...
...considerably more than a mere "mention of the hundreds of thousands of American children having to attend classes in basements, etc." see TIME Cover Story on Educator James Bryant Conant, Sept...