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...James B. Conant, President Emeritus, will speak on "The Revolutionary Transformation of the American High School" Wednesday evening at 8 p.m. in New Lecture Hall. His address, the annual Inglis Lecture on Secondary Education, will be sponsored by the Graduate School of Education...
Wisdom (NBC, 2-2:30 p.m.). Home from four years as U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to Germany, Dr. James B. Conant has some shrewd observations on what is different and what ought to be different between the U.S. and European school systems...
...American High School Today, Conant...
...Conant's report, based on visits to 55 schools in several states, called for consolidation of scattered school districts to obtain wider curricula, better teaching, and better facilities. He defined the ideal size of a "comprehensive school" as 500 to 600 students...
According to Hutchins, Conant's recommendation was based on the "unsound" assumption that only 15 per cent of the high school students were qualified for a demanding academic program...