Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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At Walden the program has had the benefit of some exceptional, versatile teachers, and that is obviously a large part of the battle in any educational program. But Augustus Pigman, one of the teachers who has helped to develop it, argues that only good, interested teachers are necessary to make...
But even now it is clear that all the students are quite excited about science and are going out and buying telescopes or constructing homemade instruments of one sort or another. And the kids interested in science do not scorn history, nor are they likely to concentrate on only one...
At the opposite extreme is the school system in Newton, reorganized across the nation as a superior educational plant. Here, the school board is composed of representative figures in education, industry, finance, and domesticity who argue disputes at an intellectual level, and are interested solely in the welfare of the...
But in many high schools throughout the state--a student can graduate having had only business arithmetic, general science, and biology. This is true especially in rural areas, where students lag far behind city students in science and math, primarily because the duties of the farm or general store do...
Olive Greensfelder, another guidance counselor at the school, explained that Horace Mann discourages four solids for incoming freshmen "whose grades are not A's and B's and whose IQ tests do not indicate they have at least 'high average' ability. . . . Through counseling, we are interested in urging pupils to...