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...James B. Conant '14, President Emeritus, proposed Monday a three-point program to improve the quality of public school teachers in the United States...
Speaking before a convention of the American Association of School Administrators in Atlantic City, N.J., Conant outlined the conclusions of a two-year study of the education of teachers. The study will be published next fall as the fourth of Conant's surveys of various aspects of contemporary American education...
...speech Monday, Conant urged large salary increases for teachers who had demonstrated their ability during at least four years of teaching. In this way, he said, additional funds "could be used to reward experienced and dedicated teachers, rather than the transients who are now attracted by the starting salary...
...University has also claimed its share of CRIMSON reporters. President James B. Conant '14; Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government; Dean Monro; Kenneth S. Lynn '45, associate professor of English; David Riesman Jr. '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences; and Richard H. Ullman '55, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, all wrote for the paper as undergraduates...
...1930s, Harvard's Graduate School of Education was so poor in pocket and prestige that President James B. Conant was tempted to padlock it. And then, characteristically. Conant thought of upgrading its mission instead. He devised the one-year Master of Arts in Teaching program, designed to turn graduates of liberal arts colleges into teacher-scholars rather than pedagogues...