Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last three years, there has been a strong rebirth of interest in full-year educational systems. A public school have each undertaken a major study. Although the recommendations were strikingly different, the findings had a great deal in common...
...Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia, proposed that the entire Virginia public school system should be put on a four-quarter program much like that which had been tried with little success in Aliquippa, 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...
...available at Exeter actually constitute a difficulty, for many of the older teachers are already well enough paid so that they would be very reluctant to start teaching full-time. The long summer vacation is one of the natural disadvantages of teaching, but it is also one of the great appeals...
...summer, and gain additional academic credits. And both public and private schools face the risk that working full-time might make a teacher "stale." This danger is especially acute in boarding schools like Exeter, for when the teacher lives in the same building with students and sees them a great deal outside the classroom, teaching becomes a full-time job, instead of an "hours only" occupation. In colleges where the work load is far lighter, the change in curriculum might seriously disturb the balance between research and teaching...
...been so much discussed, thus seems to have little chance for acceptance. To institute it would probably cause a minor social revolution, at least on the secondary school level, for spreading vacations through the year would change the entire complexion of the student employment situation, now based on the great number of jobs available during the summer when most older workers like to go on vacation. Such a revolution would probably have to occur before any public school system could adopt the proposal on a large scale, for otherwise opposition would be overwhelming...