Word: fullnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambridge, and Fort Worth. The plan, which had met with great parental disapproval, was shelved when the segregation crisis occurred, and there is little prospect that it will be revived. Despite its failure, the Virginia proposal represents one of the first serious moves by a state system toward the full year school, and is memorable for that reason alone...
...other studies have been made, however, which promise to have far greater effects: one because it is almost a definitive case against the four-quarter program; the other because it led to concrete action which represents a step toward full-time use of a college...
Phillips Exeter Academy made its study at the suggestion of a member of the Board of Trustees. A committee of four faculty members and the treasurer of the school worked full-time during the summer of 1957. Their conclusion, that Exeter should not go on a full-year schedule, was supported by a rebuttal of some of the favorite arguments of supporters of the four-quarter proposal. Their report is, however, an extraordinarily persuasive statement of the appeal of a full-year program if applied somewhere more suited to it than Exeter...
...Full-time use of the school plant is only the first advantage of the four-quarter program. This argument appeals especially to a business-minded board of trustees, but it represents a distinctly one-sided view...
...most important possibility is that it would allow teachers to work all year round. By using their skills full-time, teachers could probably earn more than one-third more pay, since administrative cost would not increase proportionally. In a school with initially high salaries like Exeter, the increase would make them competitive with industry, and in other schools, salaries might at least rise above the subsistence level...