Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 school system. They are possessed of an implicit trust in the professional staffs of the schools, and to a great extent rely on them for suggestions for improving the curriculum. Detailed proposals made to the board by a member of a faculty have been rejected only because of financial limitations, when...
...enable students to take advantage of the advanced standing programs at Harvard and other colleges. Classes are held in small discussion groups, with constant insistence on self-expression. There are few formal examinations, but frequent critical essays are required in all course. Projects and several long papers allow college-level work in the last year...
...modified summer school session for those who want to take advance biology, physics, or chemistry. Because there is not enough time to take a full Advanced Placement course in any of these subjects in one year, students take the elemntary portions over the summer to qualify for the higher-level courses during the regular term...
...object--a heightened academic pace--dovetailed closely with another way for Harvard to help solve the problem which would be created by increased pressure for college admissions. This was the view that saw the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--both the College and the Graduate School--as an upper-level teachers' college, a Ph.D. mill to supply the nation's college instructors...
...awards were 4% over April of 1957.