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...second alternative, the University, unfortunately, cannot determine higher standards in secondary schools. The colleges have no direct influence over high schools and prep schools, no way to change curricula and institute more meaningful courses of study. Whether raising entrance requirements would force better preparedness on the part of secondary schools is doubtful; on a nation-wide basis it seems highly unlikely that standards would improve because a few colleges heightened admittance requirements...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: A Three-Year College Program Might Be Best | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

Other speakers will summarize current social studies curricula and work out a philosophical and practical framework for action in an effort to place the problem of education on communism in historical perspective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Will Make Keynote Talk for Summer Forums | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...report commented that the controversy between schools and colleges over the merits of advanced standing has died down, but noted that the fundamental questions of waste and possible enrichment of college curricula remain...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Dean's Report Praises Course Reduction Plan | 2/27/1957 | See Source »

...area to another without written permission from the Government. The Population Registration Act provides a Register of the population in order to distinguish clearly between racial groups. The Bantu Education Act of 1949 imposed strict restrictions on the education of blacks in the Union, carefully segregating schools and curricula...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: Apartheid: South Africa | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

Strijdom has publicized his plan to build new schools, "tribal colleges," for blacks and whites. But the estimated Government subsidization for the white colleges more than triples that for the Africans. Moreover, the curricula imposed on the "African" schools prohibits blacks from being admitted to European (Continental) universities. The policy of rigid educational segregation does not merely separate cultures; it serves to keep the African blacks socially, academically, and economically inferior. To insure white supremacy, Strijdom is determined to make it impossible for blacks to improve their status...

Author: By Robert H. Neuman, | Title: Apartheid: South Africa | 2/26/1957 | See Source »

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