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...American tradition in education is local support for local schools. According to former Harvard President James Bryant Conant, the emphasis on community responsibility for the financing of public schools has created an "inequality of opportunity" that can only be resolved by shifting the burden to the states and, to a lesser extent, the Federal Government...
...Congressman conjectured that the university lobby will attack any selection system which does not protect bright students, Curtis explained. "Back in 1951 Conant (James B. Conant, former President of Harvard) told the military, 'You give us the bright boys, we won't say anything about the draft. Now the military has broken its part of the bargain, and the educators are free to say what they want...
...other members: former Harvard President James B. Conant, Caltech President Lee A. DuBridge, Author Ralph Ellison, Ambassador to Switzerland John S. Hayes, University of Illinois President David D. Henry, Houston Post Chairman Oveta Culp Hobby, J. C. Kellam (manager of Lyndon Johnson's broadcasting holdings), Polaroid President Edwin H. Land, Reynolds Metals President Joseph H. McConnell, Hampshire College President Franklin Patterson, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, TV Producer Robert (Omnibus) Saudek, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and United Auto Workers' Executive Leonard Woodcock...
...Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which is financing the study, announced the appointments Wednesday. An earlier Carnegie study of secondary education, which was headed by former Harvard president, James B. Conant '14, spurred several improvements in high schools throughout the country. This new study entitled "The Carnegie Study of Higher Education," is expected to be similar in its scope and eventual effect...
...Michigan. Shortly before Sputnik, he got Carnegie to sponsor a study that eventually led to the new math. He persuaded James Bryant Conant to undertake his probing look at U.S. education. He sent out three-man "Jeep teams" to investigate Africa because even then he could see that "it was a sleeping giant-in four years everyone would be crying for African experts...