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When Jeff Baker turned up on TV six years ago, he was a puny, pampered high-school kid. But burning love soon made a man of him, standing trial for murder sobered him, marriage gave him strength, annulment brought him misery, alcoholism aged him, and-all the while -pericarditis, the dread killer disease, haunted him. Thanks to such experiences, Jeff aged 15 years in just six, growing up to become groovy, talented Jeff Baker, 33, pianist, composer, company president, and the worshiped mate of Penny, his no nonsense wife. Small wonder that Jeff became the most important figure...
Among the states represented by the 15 high-school teachers coming to the University under the program are New York, Ohio, Illinois, California, Masschusetts, and Michigan...
...could well be argued that we have given away the wrong year--because in fact the high-school AP course is generally a first course in concentration, and none can be regarded as comparable to our lower-level offerings in general education. But it is equally true that a Harvard undergraduate concentration, particularly since we introduced a required program of sophomore tutorial, is a linked three-year program and not easily broken...
...year public "community" colleges are billed as the solution to two national problems: the shortage of skilled technicians and the enrollment bulge at four-year colleges. This is no easy task. Most community colleges must admit any high-school graduate, provide technical training for"terminal" students and still keep their academic standards high enough for transfer students to step easily into the junior year at regular colleges...
Unlike other junior colleges. Foothill starts students on probation if their high-school average is C or less, and its dropout rate is a hardhearted 40%. On the academic side, Foothill matches the curriculum at four-year colleges; the mam difference is more guidance and smaller classes. Foothill's teaching loads are kept deliberately low, for example, so that teachers can spend more time advising students or poring over their required weekly compositions. As one apparent consequence of such attention, Foothill's transfer students generally get better grades at four-year colleges than those who started out there...