Word: curriculum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vital that the A.P. program should be continued; its expansion is a healthy contribution to inspiring high academic ideals in the schools, and it helps to make the college curriculum challenging and interesting to well prepared students. Colleges and schools may find that sacrifices are necesary in order to make their contribution to the program, although as Advanced Placement is presently divided among colleges, the richest would make the largest--yet comparatively modest--contributions. They should recognize, however, that whether or not a student derives monetary benefit from the tests by his course exemptions, he is usually in no position...
...course offerings for undergraduates in Comparative Literature. While any comprehensive concentration in Comparative Literature is, perhaps, too broad and requires an inordinate amount of background and study for College students, individual courses based on literature from more than one country are a necessary part of any full curriculum...
...curriculum of almost all public high schools in 1905 was strictly academic," Conant pointed out, but by 1930 the "widely comprehensive high school," due to its offering of many vocational subjects, turned out students "whose only academic credential for college preparation was a high school diploma...
...There is a definite lack of advanced courses," Miss Hendrickson asserted, commenting, "At Sarah Lawrence, if you want to take something esoteric, you can't because the curriculum doesn't offer such courses...
...state's compulsory school attendance law. The embattled parents proudly reported the texts Tommy uses (one of them is a McGuffey Reader, copyrighted in 1879). submitted test results showing that their pupil has progressed some two years ahead of his contemporaries. The prosecution refused to argue about curriculum, and later, School Superintendent Thomas Campbell's only remark was: "We feel we have a real fine elementary school program...