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...McLean, Va. a British teacher evolved a whole new science program for the Potomac School, which is now a regular part of the curriculum. The principal of Delaware's Bridgeville Consolidated School reported that his visiting Scot was "so delightful" that even his kilt was accepted "without gibes from the males and with downright enthusiasm by the females." In Gig Harbor, Wash, a high-school student won an award in the Betty Crocker "American Homemaker of Tomorrow" contest, took her British home-economics teacher along on the winning trip to Washington, D.C., Williamsburg and Philadelphia. "It was," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Ambassadors | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...After giving a battery of tests to 60,000 Oklahoma high-school students in the first state talent survey of its kind, Chicago's Science Research Associates shed some additional light on the nation's shortage of scientists. Of the 60,000, the S.R.A. found 7,121 to be so scientifically gifted as to be "among the very elite in America's high schools." Unfortunately, a good fourth of the talented never bothered to get good grades, and only half of the scientifically gifted are expected to go on to college...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...Italian-born pastry cook, Sammartino graduated from City College, studied at the Sorbonne, finally became an associate of the now defunct experimental New College at Teachers College, Columbia. There, in the mid-'30s he took part in a survey of high-school principals around Rutherford, found them agreed that too many of their students were missing out on a college education either because they could not afford to go to a campus away from home or because they could not get the training they wanted. In 1941 Sammartino and a group of the principals began discussing plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tailored to Measure | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...students, and one college official bluntly warned Sammartino: "Everybody else is either cutting down or folding up. You must be nuts." The first year, Fairleigh Dickinson managed to attract only 60 day and 90 night students. But balding President Sammartino offered something special to the community. He made local high-school principals his board of educational directors, evolved with them a curriculum that could be tailored to what local high-school seniors seemed to want and need. By 1945 his enrollment had jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tailored to Measure | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

...went into the mines during high-school vacations, studied mining engineering at Penn State ('24). After graduation, he went back to the pits, by 1936 worked up from assistant foreman to general manager of Madeira Hill & Co., later became president of Phoenix Contracting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Aug. 13, 1956 | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

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