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States can best help local schools by rating them academically, James Bryant Conant '14, President Emeritus, stated last night in the annual Gustav Pollack Lecture on Government. But he warned against a rapid increase of the use of state power as a means of improving schools...
...Conant said that a state "academic inventory" would "furnish the facts upon which parental action at the local level will be based." He counted on knowledge of the schools' quality to stimulate local pride and inter-city competition...
...Conant's lecture, called "The Child, the Parent, and the State," was largely based on a study he has made of United States high schools since 1957. The results of the first phase of this study were published recently in his book, The American High School Today...
...distribution of abilities and ambitions "varies considerably from one type of community to another," Conant said. He added that state requirements are wise "only to the degree that these requirements are sensible ones when applied to each and every community in the state." Continuing in the same vein, he asserted that "unless one were prepared to...establish a system of state schools, I believe no set of state regulations can establish a state system of uniform excellence...
James Bryant Conant '14, President Emeritus, will speak on "The Child, the Parent, and the State" tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. in New Lecture Hall. His address, the annual Gustav Pollack Lecture, will be sponsored by the Graduate School of Public Administration...