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...Eastland, loudest voice of the bias-bawling white Citizens' Council. On hearing the news. Mrs. Elizabeth Eastland gulped: "It comes as a surprise." Affably drawled Jim Eastland: "No comment." The Senator's consolation, if he decides to let his children stay at Sidwell: unless his kiddies flunk several grades, or some of the late-coming Negro students are skipped upward, the Eastland children will not have colored classmates...
Yale thinks that its students have never read better. On the other hand, Associate Professor John Jordan of the University of California's English department has noted that half of U. of C.'s applicants regularly flunk the English entrance examination. "If 50% of the top 20% of the high-school graduates cannot pass the test," says he, "it seems to suggest that, for one reason or another, the students are not very well prepared by the public schools...
...headmaster had no reply. Emphasis in the school has shifted toward intellectually challenging the top half of the class. The others have to follow along the best they can--and must have a certain IQ not to flunk out. This situation disturbs the headmaster. His graduates have a very successful record in gaining admittance to college, but he has no idea where the school itself is heading. He fears that if the current emphasis on intellectual capabilities continues, the institution cannot survive in competition with large schools which can attract more easily first-rate students with their better facilities...
...agonizing experience," he continued, "and many flunk out. Their failure is the fault of their alumni fathers, but the boys themselves suffer the crushing disappointment of academic failure," concluded the alumnus, who termed himself "one who has watched some Yale sons suffer the torture of the damned...
...Deputy Mayor Henry Epstein of New York City tossed a group of local educators two questions for which no one seemed to have any answers. "How is it," he asked, "that the same youngsters who flunk shop courses are able to 'soup up' old jalopies with hand-tooled carburetors? And why are boys failures at making book ends but successes in crafting zip guns out of scrap...