Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 kind of science, for they see the importance of a wide range of understanding. The early returns, including a Walden junior who has just been admitted to the class of 1962 here, are most encouraging for this new program.Here Walden eighth graders examine, with a teacher, a map of the United States. They have drawn it themselves, applying the basic ideas of mapping that they learned earlier with reference...
...high school itself includes the four pre-college classes with an enrollment of about 1300. Its system of grouping classes represents a departure from usual junior and senior high divisions. Until last September, the school also handled the seventh and eighth grades, but enrollment reached over 1700 in a building which should not have held more than 1400. Scarsdale voted to erect a junior high school which was completed for use this year. The new multi-million dollar building includes sixth, as well as seventh and eighth graders, thus also easing the squeeze in the elementary. The four-year high...
...Scarsdale is practically a college preparatory school. Of the class of 1956, 97 percent of the students went on to continue their education in college or junior college in specialized training. The following year saw about 90 per cent of the graduates go on to further study--in both cases a very high proportion for a public high school...
...where you go to college. The records for 1956 and 1957 do reveal, though, some trend toward a wider distribution of colleges attended by the school's graduates. More students have been directed toward two year schools: only six per cent of 1956's graduates went to junior colleges, while in 1957 13 per cent continued their education at a two-year school. The increasing competition to get into college will probably widen further the distribution of schools chosen by seniors and also weaken some of the prestige criteria held by pupils and their parents. In this sense the growing...
Just as '58 returned from its junior year Christmas vacation, one startling change was made as Lloyd Jordan's contract was bought up by the University. Nobody ever made it very explicit as to why Jordan was fired, but the two main interpretations were that he sounded off against Ivy code admissions regulations, and that his teams did not win. The University said he was fired as a "poor teacher," but did not define what a good teacher...