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Even President James B. Conant, who had entertained the old General at his house the evening before, was not led to expect a major address from Marshall. But word of Harvard's honorary degree to Marshall and his apearance at the University had leaked to the press 24 hours earlier. The New York Times that morning wrote, "He is expected to deliver a speech which perhaps will include an important pronouncement on foreign affairs...
...move even into the present, was so far from acting with the assent of his Faculty that he faced a group of distinguished professors--a veritable executive committee of the Faculty--petitioning the President to reverse the policy to which he was committed. The situation was not unprecedented (Mr. Conant had found himself under similar assault on the question of appointments), but it was distinctly unfortunate...
Nothing Ordinary. Thinking ahead, Carnegie in 1956 supported pioneering school math reforms. It launched James B. Conant on his key studies of U.S. high schools (TIME cover, Sept. 14. 1959). and in 1958 it got public campuses to set up honors programs for gifted students. In the past year, Carnegie underwrote everything from courses in Chinese at a private school in Massachusetts to helping Denver parents teach their kindergarten children to read, plus a significant $300,000 grant to Notre Dame for the first big study of U.S. parochial schools...
...Joining Conant are university scholars, who once disdained professional educators but are now more than willing to add their voices to the task of modernizing the school curriculum. Reforms are under way in almost every subject: biology, chemistry, economics. English, math and physics - and all of the reforms are creating new national yardsticks. Stirring the schools equally is a flood of new knowl edge about learning itself, the work of scholars who now look on the process of education as an untapped gold mine...
...pressure of population on poor school districts will force Congress to pass a hefty education bill. A strong education agency could then act as a referee between Congress and the schools. "The day when we have federal aid will lead to a Cabinet officer for education," says James Conant. "and his staff will be the buffer.'' Clearly, that day will also herald the arrival of national standards for U.S. education-hopefully the kind that will renew the freedom and vitality of local schools...