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DONALD F. DREISBACH Evanston...
WHIT HILLYER Evanston...
...particular pride to Michael is Evanston's program for Educable Mentally Handicapped (EMH) students. He recounts with considerable relish how a CBS television show came to Evanston "to see our program for the talented but was so impressed by our EMH program" that the TV network fimled a report on it instead. "We're just as proud of this aspect of our program as we are of the other tracks...
...discussion of Evanston's EMH program prompted a short discursion of Michael's general philosophy of educational administration. "In education, it's excellence for all, in whatever they do," Michael says with quiet conviction. He rejects the concept of an honor school, although he believes strongly in "a very heavily tracked curriculum in all subject areas on the basis of 'ability groups...
...Evanston has not escaped the population explosion, and, Michael is faced with a future enrollment of 6000. At present, Evanston has approximately 4300 students. He reviewed the many alternatives open to a suburban community high school faced with a burgeoning enrollment, discussing each one at length. "We are now on 65 acres of land at the geographic center of our township. There are obviously many alternatives, and it's been a real struggle to reach a decision. A student body of 6000 is obviously too large for one high school." He noted, however, that building another, separate school inevitably raises...