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Word: furthered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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For Scarsdale is practically a college preparatory school. Of the class of 1956, 97 percent of the students went on to continue their education in college or junior college in specialized training. The following year saw about 90 per cent of the graduates go on to further study--in both...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Suburbia's Scarsdale High School Offers Top Academic Challenge | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

As a preparatory institution, Scarsdale is highly competitive for both "honor-roll" and average students. There is an intensive scramble among bright pupils to "make" a good college, and one of the hardest tasks of the deans is advising students to look colleges other than the traditional ones in the...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Suburbia's Scarsdale High School Offers Top Academic Challenge | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

The prestige element assumes much significance in college choice motivations, especially when parents steer their children towards schools with which mom and dad are familiar. In Scarsdale the important question is not whether you go, but where you go to college. The records for 1956 and 1957 do reveal, though...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Suburbia's Scarsdale High School Offers Top Academic Challenge | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

Along with these contrasts there are specialized problems which apply equally to all parts of the system. Such questions as "What can be done for the exceptionally bright student?" "What can be done to further the development of science in secondary schools?" and "What is the proper role of organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Dilemma of U.S. Secondary Schools: Democracy's Burden on the Intellect | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

There is little danger that further advances in the quality and variety of regular school courses will push bright students into an "academic shell."The queen of Horace Mann Homecoming graciously receives a bouquet of roses after her crowning. Her highness and the members of her court wear corsages to...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Typical Midwestern High School Seeks Values Outside Classrooms | 6/12/1958 | See Source »

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