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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mantle of Dr. Conant around me," as one principal puts it, many a working schoolman has finally got the school board's green light for scores of reforms and experiments that promise to make the new year one of the richest in history. Items: CJ In Philadelphia, high schools will give superior seniors five major subjects instead of four. In Richmond, high schools will begin a five-year program of 23 courses. In the Peekskill (N.Y.) High School, a Conant-inspired inventory should become the best persuader yet for top students not trying for college (36% of the brightest...
Rhode Island, a statewide self-criticism meeting yielded money from the legislature for special programs: calculus in Cumberland High School, Russian in Cranston High School, the M.I.T. physics course in East Providence High School. ¶ English composition, a top Conant priority, is getting overdue attention. Main problem: the teacher shortage. To produce one student theme a week. Conant suggested that no English teacher should handle more than 100 students. But correcting 100 themes at ten minutes each takes 17 hours of work-2½ hours seven nights a week. Chicago would need 330 more teachers, adding...
...President of the U.S., Dwight D. Eisenhower-Abilene High School, Abilene, Kans...
...Vice President of the U.S., Richard M. Nixon-Whittier Union High School, Whittier, Calif...
...Senate majority leader, Lyndon Johnson-Johnson City High School, Johnson City, Texas...