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...that stir was strong enough to distract the faculty from the other 117 pages of the Dahl Report. The appendix suggested that the school should remain open all year to try to increase tuition revenue without crowding classes. "The debate on the report waged on that appendix," William Kessen, Yale professor of psychology and committee member, recalls. Ironically, after all "that vigorous and negative response, we ended up adopting that calender in modified form," Kessen says...
...Kessen says that the report got too bogged down on the specifies of change. He said the attention spent on the summer plan was a setback-a sidelight ended up dominating the report's wealth of academic recommendations...
Yale's action reflects a widespread dissatisfaction over trying to apply numbers, or letters with pluses and minuses, to something as inexact as student performance. Explained Professor William Kessen, chairman of the committee that recommended the changes: "Whether a man gets a 72 or a 74 just doesn't reflect his performance, his knowledge, or anything." The new system, however, presents Yale students with one potential problem: in competing for entrance to graduate schools, they will have neither class rankings, nor point averages to present, will have to depend heavily on faculty recommendations and interviews...
...generally skeptical about the home-teaching trend, particularly the teaching of reading. They have little doubt that some parents can teach some three-year-olds and four-year-olds to read-but why should they? "No one has really given any sound reason for doing so," says Psychologist William Kessen of Yale's Child Study Center. Myra Woodruff, recently retired chief of New York State's Bureau of Child Development and Parent Education, believes that the real motivation for many parents to teach their tots is that "it represents status...
...Japan, the little people had no hope for peace, did not suspect that in time the United Nations would crash through to their heartland. They knew only that this was the Kessen year, the year of battle decision...