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Science is harder to get into than most colleges; last summer 3,900 of New York City's brightest students applied, and only 750 were accepted. Occasionally, critics complain that such selectivity is undemocratic; others, notably onetime Harvard President James B. Conant, who is engaged in an intensive study of U.S. high schools, argue that modern comprehensive high schools can provide the varied training needed by all kinds of students, bright ones included...
President Pusey will be "unable to make it," Algase stated. Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, and Amos N. Wilder, Hollis Professor of Divinity, have also declined invitations to speak...
According to Conant's system, course planning would vary for the bright, average, and slow students, with some courses being shared...
...Conant's concept of the ideal school is not an attempt to segregate students according to ability. All students would share the same homerooms and lunch hours, and would be allowed to take some courses in an upper or lower level...
...basic advantages in Conant's plan is that the various suggestions made by the educator are all in practice in different high schools scattered throughout the United States...