Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advanced placement plan, which affects many more students, is not concerned with admission procedure. The program enables those freshmen with strong backgrounds in one or two fields to take upper level courses in these subjects. Besides enabling the freshman to enroll in more advanced courses, advanced placement carries the Office's vague encouragement to him to work for course reduction in his junior and senior years...
Sophomore standing, early admission and advanced placement center around the better prepared freshmen. Because they have completed college-level courses in high school, some incoming students are able to enter the sophomore class, and a few qualified juniors have been able to skip their last year of high school. The early admission and sophomore standing programs eliminate from high school or college a year which the Office of Advanced Standing feels would be wasteful in educational value...
...rest of the advanced standing program did not originate here. In 1952-53 a group of educators led by the late Gordon K. Chalmers, president of Kenyon College, established the School and College Study of Admission with Advanced Standing--the SCSAAS--offering college-level courses in a group of experimental high schools. This "Kenyon Plan" was coordinated with a group of 12 small colleges which agreed to give advanced credit to successful participants in the program. The advanced courses began in the pilot group of high schools in the fall of '53 and the following spring Harvard inaugurated its program...
Since previous college-level work must be demonstrated on the Advanced Placement tests given by the College Entrance Examination Board in May or on the college's placement tests, sophomore standing can usually be determined only in the fall. Students who have studied abroad, however, and have obtained secondary education degrees have been admitted directly as sophomores. At present there are 13 advanced standing sophomores from American schools...
Riesman will be concerned exclusively with College level activity and teaching, and will thus be a sort of College University Professor...