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The test is rooted back in 1958, when Little Lake called in some U.C.L.A. experts to measure how its schools were faring. Spurred by the unflattering report, Little Lake hired a vigorous new superintendent with a taste for higher standards. Superintendent William G. Stanley launched homework for all grades, reading...
The more radical approach is taken by David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences. Of each assumption underlying our educational system, Riesman seems to ask: what does it do to help or hinder the development of man into what he--in Riesman's view--ought to...
There was no lack of persons ready to offer advice. Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, told the freshmen that modern war was 2000 times worse than the medieval version. Clarence Darrow denounced "poverty-creating big business" as the cause of all crime." Sinclair Lewis declared that "one half the...
Motivated by a spirit of service to the Harvard-Radcliffe community and a refreshing, innocent arrogance, the CRIMSON will once again issue its authoritative guide to lower and middle-level courses. The Confidential Guide. Submit comments on your courses, reading lists, professors, section men, grading, etc., via the questionnaire distributed...
At the same time, the AAUP warned that state and municipal universities are in "serious danger of falling behind private institutions in quality unless they improve faculty salaries." The salary levels in many colleges were called "scandalously low," and better than half of the public universities polled were given D...