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...Catholic Conant. B.C.'s drive stems from its 22nd president, Father Michael Walsh, 51, a no-nonsense biologist sometimes called "the James Conant of Catholic education." Walsh has run B.C. since 1958 with the aim of proving that a Catholic college can produce impressive numbers of Catholic intellectuals. To get better students for its all-male liberal arts school, B.C. is scouring the nation's blue-chip Catholic high schools for bright kids. The payoff is an honors program of students with average college board scores in verbal and math aptitude of 707 and 712. This year...
Last week Harvard's former President James B. Conant suggested a way out of the dilemma, a way to national standards without onerous control and without "wholesale bribery of the states by the Federal Government." In a speech at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Conant envisioned a nationwide adviso ry council, approved by Congress, to be called the "Standing Group on Educational Strategy." Chosen by state legislatures, its 50-odd members would develop education "guidelines" on a national basis and persuade state lawmakers to adopt them. Chairman of the group would be a newly created U.S. Secretary...
...Conant sees it, this would prod states to raise standards while using federal funds without federal control. With out such a plan, Conant foresees "a patchwork series of decisions about spending federal funds, reached by compromises in Congress between pressure groups. That a sensible, nationwide policy can be developed the way we are now going. I question with all the emphasis...
...Conant's studies have been published by the Educational Testing Service and financed by the Carnegie Corporation
...same pragmatic approach was continued in "Education in the Junior High School Years," published in October, 1960, which was addressed specifically to educators and school administrators. Here Conant urged that the junior high school concentrate on preparing its students academically for senior high school, and that they avoid emphasis on athletic programs and pretentious graduating ceremonies...