Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pressing Need. Connecticut's problems are particularly pressing because a disproportionate 15% of its school children fall into the superior category. This week the state was hard at work on one of the most ambitious programs yet: a statewide survey of the needs of gifted children, in which laymen and professional educators will collaborate. Two groups will work on the survey. One. the Connecticut Committee for the Gifted, a state-appointed group, is headed by Author John (A Bell for Adano) Hersey, who has made the study of educational needs his avocation (he has four school-age children...
...Alfred Plant Junior High School began an experimental program for them in 1950. At Hillhouse High School in New Haven, exceptionally bright students were put to work handling primary source material for a civic commemoration. Programs have also been set up in Darien, Fairfield, Norwalk, Cheshire, Stratford. Almost all Connecticut schools, in varying degrees, have begun to give special attention to superior students...
...SENATOR WILLIAM BENTON, Connecticut Democrat, board chairman of Encyclopedia Britannica and Muzak Corp., in PRINTERS...
...Connecticut, which has some of the nation's most active citizens' groups working for the schools, may bring to the White House conference some special reports on the education of the gifted child. Today the state has three committees working on the problem. Some schools now offer advanced courses to bright pupils; one school is experimenting with giving eighth graders ninth-grade work; Darien has a program by which talented science students can work in the laboratories of local industrial chemists...
...their own mounts - at $40 to $80 a month for feed and shelter. But most ride horses they do not own. They pay up to $3.50 an hour to canter adventurously over bri dle paths in city parks or $150 a week to rough it in dude ranches from Connecticut to California...