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Knights in Shining Chinos. The Great Society, or any society, needs manpower as well as brainpower. The scholastically brilliant will invent new computers, but the academically average must know how to run them. And although the U.S. has always provided an outstanding education to some, the wave of reform has...
"There's no question," says Conant, "that the American public is now more in favor of tough, rough standards for those who can take it." Many high schools now require five courses a semester, not four. Hardly a high school exists without some sort of enriched academic program for...
· EDUCATION: This is the bill the President seems to be keenest about this session. It calls for $1.5 billion to be added the first year to the $4 billion now being spent for federal aid to education. Unlike Kennedy, who sent up a public school construction bill that roused...
Another $500 million would go for new programs such as "service centers," mostly located within existing public or private schools, which might provide testing, guidance, remedial math and reading, language laboratories, classes for gifted or retarded children-all outside the usual concept of classroom education.
Pusey sketched the proposed Institute to the Board of Overseers yesterday. He said that millions saw in President Kennedy "a gifted young man of courage and intelligence, who relished the life of a politician as fully as any, but who at the same time was happily at home in the...